--- title: Then, as arranged, they turned their horses' heads towards the palac… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Then, as arranged, they turned their horses' heads towards the palace, and while Prince Bahman remained by the side of the Sultan, Prince Perviz rode on to warn his sister of their approach. Who acts: pearls, Bahman, Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/101/) [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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/) / 101 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 101 Then, as arranged, they turned their horses' heads towards the palace, and while Prince Bahman remained by the side of the Sultan, Prince Perviz rode on to warn his sister of their approach. **Who acts:** pearls, Bahman, Prince · **What happens:** arrange, turn, remain, ride on, warn, approach · **To what, where:** heads, palace, sister This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearls, Bahman, Prince), 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:pg128:43:101 # text = Then, as arranged, they turned their horses' heads towards the palace, and while Prince Bahman remained by the side of the Sultan, Prince Perviz rode on to warn his sister of their approach. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 arranged arrange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:desc _ _ 19 Bahman Bahman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 Perviz Perviz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 approach approach NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrange** | participle | pearls *= pearl* *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **turn** | past | pearls *= pearl* | pearls's horses's heads | | the palace | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme towards palace=Trajectory | | 3 | **remain** | past | Bahman Prince | | | | | by the side of the Sultan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location | | 4 | **ride on** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | Prince's sister of pearls's approach | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | | 6 | **approach** | | pearls *= pearl* | | | | | | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/100/) - next →: [Opening, part 44, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)