--- title: She was in the very act of moving them through her fingers at the mo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: She was in the very act of moving them through her fingers at the moment that the prince fell a victim to his impatience, and her heart sank when the first pearl remained fixed in its place. Who acts: princess, act, prince, heart. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/) / 61 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 61 She was in the very act of moving them through her fingers at the moment that the prince fell a victim to his impatience, and her heart sank when the first pearl remained fixed in its place. **Who acts:** princess, act, prince, heart, first pearl · **What happens:** be, move, fall, sink, remain, fix · **To what, where:** act, Perviz, fingers, victim, place This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, act, prince, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:42:61 # text = She was in the very act of moving them through her fingers at the moment that the prince fell a victim to his impatience, and her heart sank when the first pearl remained fixed in its place. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 victim victim NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 impatience impatience NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 33 pearl pearl NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 35 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | princess | | | the act | | | tree rules | | 2 | **move** | gerund | the act *not said here* | Perviz | | princess's fingers | moment | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme through finger=Trajectory | | 3 | **fall** | past | the prince | a victim | | | | to Prince's impatience *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to impatience=Result | | 4 | **sink** | past | princess's heart | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **remain** | past | the first pearl | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fix** | participle | princess's heart *not said here* | | | heart's place | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/62/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/)