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title: However she had long made up her mind what she would do in such a ca… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: However she had long made up her mind what she would do in such a case, and the following morning the princess, disguised as a man, set out for the mountain. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 62

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However she had long made up her mind what she would do in such a case, and the following morning the princess, disguised as a man, set out for the mountain.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** make up, do, follow, disguise, set out, mind · **To what, where:** mind, case, morning princess, man

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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), 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:pg128:42:62
# text = However she had long made up her mind what she would do in such a case, and the following morning the princess, disguised as a man, set out for the mountain.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past · perfect | princess | princess's mind |  |  |  | the morning princess *obl*; however, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | would | princess |  |  | such case |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **disguise** | participle |  | the morning princess *not said here* |  |  |  | as a man | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **set out** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | for the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **mind** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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