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title: Directly she was in the saddle, with her feet in the stirrups and th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly she was in the saddle, with her feet in the stirrups and the bridle in her hand, the physician placed around the horse some large braziers full of burning coals, into each of which he threw a perfume composed of all sorts of delicious scents. Who acts: princess, physician, horse. A sentence
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 34

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Directly she was in the saddle, with her feet in the stirrups and the bridle in her hand, the physician placed around the horse some large braziers full of burning coals, into each of which he threw a perfume composed of all sorts of delicious scents.

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**Who acts:** princess, physician, horse · **What happens:** be, place, burn, throw, compose, sort · **To what, where:** saddle, large braziers, perfume, delicious scents

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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 (princess, physician, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg128:40:34
# text = Directly she was in the saddle, with her feet in the stirrups and the bridle in her hand, the physician placed around the horse some large braziers full of burning coals, into each of which he threw a perfume composed of all sorts of delicious scents.
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	around	around	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	braziers	brazier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	amod	_	_
33	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	scents	scent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | princess |  |  | the saddle and princess's feet in the stirrups and the bridle in princess's hand and the physician |  | directly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **place** | participle | the physician *not said here* | some large braziers |  |  |  | around the horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around horse=Destination |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | past | horse | a perfume |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme of which=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **compose** | participle |  | a perfume *not said here* |  |  |  | of all sorts of delicious scents | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | delicious scents |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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.

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