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title: Meanwhile the cradle continued to float peacefully along the canal t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the cradle continued to float peacefully along the canal till, on the outskirts of the royal gardens, it was suddenly perceived by the intendant, one of the highest and most respected officials in the kingdom. Who acts: cradle, intendant. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» b
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 84

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Meanwhile the cradle continued to float peacefully along the canal till, on the outskirts of the royal gardens, it was suddenly perceived by the intendant, one of the highest and most respected officials in the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** cradle, intendant · **What happens:** continue, float, perceive · **To what, where:** outskirts, cradle

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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 (cradle, intendant), 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:pg128:40:84
# text = Meanwhile the cradle continued to float peacefully along the canal till, on the outskirts of the royal gardens, it was suddenly perceived by the intendant, one of the highest and most respected officials in the kingdom.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	canal	canal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	intendant	intendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	35	advmod	_	_
35	respected	respected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the cradle |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **float** | to-infinitive | the cradle *not said here* |  |  | the outskirts of the royal gardens |  | along the canal till; peacefully *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme along till=Source on outskirt=Trajectory |
| 3 | **perceive** | past · passive | the intendant | cradle |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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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