--- title: The moment his Highness entered the courtyard, the princess flung he… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The moment his Highness entered the courtyard, the princess flung herself at his feet, but he bent and raised her, and gazed at her for some time, struck with her grace and beauty, and also with the indefinable air of courts that seemed to hang round this country girl. 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" **Who acts:** moment, princess, Highness, courts · **What happens:** enter, fling, bend, raise, gaze, strike · **To what, where:** courtyard, princess, feet This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, princess, Highness, courts), 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:pg128:44:1 # text = The moment his Highness entered the courtyard, the princess flung herself at his feet, but he bent and raised her, and gazed at her for some time, struck with her grace and beauty, and also with the indefinable air of courts that seemed to hang round this country girl. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 Highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 also also ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 indefinable indefinable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 round round ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 54 det _ _ 53 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the moment | the courtyard | | | | with the indefinable air of courts | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Destination | | 2 | **fling** | past | the princess | princess | | Highness's feet | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination | | 3 | **bend** | past | Highness | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **raise** | past | Highness *not said here* | princess | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **gaze** | past | | | | | time | at princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 6 | **strike** | participle | | | | | | with princess's grace and beauty | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with grace=Theme | | 7 | **seem** | past | courts | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 8 | **hang** | to-infinitive | courts *not said here* | | | | | round this country girl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round girl=Destination | 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: [Opening, part 43, 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/101/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/)