--- title: As she had been accustomed to riding from her childhood, she managed… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: As she had been accustomed to riding from her childhood, she managed to travel as many miles daily as her brothers had done, and it was, as before, on the twentieth day that she arrived at the place where the dervish was sitting. " Who acts: princess, brothers, childhood, dervish. 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" **Who acts:** princess, brothers, childhood, dervish · **What happens:** accustom, manage, travel, do, be, arrive · **To what, where:** princess, many miles, 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, brothers, childhood, dervish), 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:pg128:42:63 # text = As she had been accustomed to riding from her childhood, she managed to travel as many miles daily as her brothers had done, and it was, as before, on the twentieth day that she arrived at the place where the dervish was sitting. " 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 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 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 riding riding NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 daily daily ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 before before ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 twentieth twentieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 47 advmod _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 dervish dervish NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive | | princess | | | | to riding from princess's childhood | tree rules | | 2 | **manage** | past | princess | | | | day | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | many miles | | | | daily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory | | 4 | **do** | past · perfect | princess's brothers | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | childhood | | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **arrive** | past | princess | | | the place | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sit** | past · progressive | the dervish | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/)