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title: It was now the turn of the youngest sister, who was by far the most… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It was now the turn of the youngest sister, who was by far the most beautiful of the three, and had, besides, more sense than the other two. " Who acts: taste, youngest sister. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 52

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It was now the turn of the youngest sister, who was by far the most beautiful of the three, and had, besides, more sense than the other two. "

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**Who acts:** taste, youngest sister · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** turn

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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 (taste, youngest sister), 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:pg128:40:52
# text = It was now the turn of the youngest sister, who was by far the most beautiful of the three, and had, besides, more sense than the other two. "
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | taste | the turn and more sense than the other two |  |  | now | of the youngest sister | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the youngest sister |  |  |  |  | of the three; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | taste *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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