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title: The old woman had taken her departure so abruptly that the Princess… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman had taken her departure so abruptly that the Princess Parizade did not perceive till she was really gone that the directions were hardly clear enough to enable the search to be successful. Who acts: old woman, Princess Parizade, Parizade, directions. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights E
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 61

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The old woman had taken her departure so abruptly that the Princess Parizade did not perceive till she was really gone that the directions were hardly clear enough to enable the search to be successful.

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**Who acts:** old woman, Princess Parizade, Parizade, directions, woman · **What happens:** take, not perceive, be, enable, depart · **To what, where:** departure, search

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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 (old woman, Princess Parizade, Parizade, directions), 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:pg128:41:61
# text = The old woman had taken her departure so abruptly that the Princess Parizade did not perceive till she was really gone that the directions were hardly clear enough to enable the search to be successful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Parizade	Parizade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	csubj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect | the old woman | woman's departure |  |  |  | abruptly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **perceive** | past · do-support | the Princess Parizade |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Parizade |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the directions |  |  |  |  | clear, enough, hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **enable** | to-infinitive |  | the search |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive |  | the search *not said here* |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **depart** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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