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title: It all happened as the Sultan had foreseen, and the two brothers app… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It all happened as the Sultan had foreseen, and the two brothers appeared in their sister's apartments just as she was in the act of stepping into bed, and told their tale. Who acts: It, Sultan, two brothers, sister. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 54

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It all happened as the Sultan had foreseen, and the two brothers appeared in their sister's apartments just as she was in the act of stepping into bed, and told their tale.

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**Who acts:** It, Sultan, two brothers, sister, act, brothers · **What happens:** happen, have, appear, be, step, tell · **To what, where:** apartments, bed, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (It, Sultan, two brothers, sister), 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:pg128:43:54
# text = It all happened as the Sultan had foreseen, and the two brothers appeared in their sister's apartments just as she was in the act of stepping into bed, and told their tale.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	foreseen	foreseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | foreseen *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | past | the two brothers |  |  | brothers's sister's apartments |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in apartment=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | sister |  |  |  |  | as the act | tree rules |
| 5 | **step** | gerund | the act *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the two brothers *not said here* | brothers's tale |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 7 | **tell** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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