--- title: Soon the rumour began to spread through the town, that something ext… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Soon the rumour began to spread through the town, that something extraordinary was about to happen, and such a crowd began to collect that the guards had to be called out to keep order, and to make a way for the enchanted horse. Who acts: rumour, something, crowd, guards. A sentence of «The Arabian --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/) / 30 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 30 Soon the rumour began to spread through the town, that something extraordinary was about to happen, and such a crowd began to collect that the guards had to be called out to keep order, and to make a way for the enchanted horse. **Who acts:** rumour, something, crowd, guards · **What happens:** begin, spread, be, happen, collect, have · **To what, where:** town, order, way This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rumour, something, crowd, guards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:40:30 # text = Soon the rumour began to spread through the town, that something extraordinary was about to happen, and such a crowd began to collect that the guards had to be called out to keep order, and to make a way for the enchanted horse. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rumour rumour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 13 extraordinary extraordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 22 det:predet _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 xcomp _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 36 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 46 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the rumour | | | | | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **spread** | to-infinitive | the rumour *not said here* | | | the town | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | something | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **happen** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | such crowd | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **collect** | to-infinitive | such crowd *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | past | the guards | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **call out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive | the guards *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 9 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the guards *not said here* | order | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 10 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a way | | | | for the enchanted horse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for horse=Beneficiary | | 11 | **enchant** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/)