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title: As the children grew older their beauty and air of distinction becam… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As the children grew older their beauty and air of distinction became more and more marked, and their manners had all the grace and ease that is proper to people of high birth. Who acts: children, distinction, manners, grace. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 25

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As the children grew older their beauty and air of distinction became more and more marked, and their manners had all the grace and ease that is proper to people of high birth.

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**Who acts:** children, distinction, manners, grace · **What happens:** grow, become, mark, have, be · **To what, where:** older beauty, grace

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, distinction, manners, grace), 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:pg128:41:25
# text = As the children grew older their beauty and air of distinction became more and more marked, and their manners had all the grace and ease that is proper to people of high birth.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the children | children's older beauty and air |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beauty=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | distinction | children's older beauty and air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient beauty=Result |
| 3 | **mark** | participle | distinction *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | children's manners | all grace and ease |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | all grace and ease |  |  |  |  | to people of high birth; proper *property* | tree rules |

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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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