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title: The water out of the lions' mouths turned into diamonds and pearls,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The water out of the lions' mouths turned into diamonds and pearls, and the leaping water almost touched a most beautifully-painted dome. Who acts: water, leaping water. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 71

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The water out of the lions' mouths turned into diamonds and pearls, and the leaping water almost touched a most beautifully-painted dome.

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**Who acts:** water, leaping water · **What happens:** turn, leap, touch, paint · **To what, where:** diamonds, painted dome

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, leaping water), 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:pg128:5:71
# text = The water out of the lions' mouths turned into diamonds and pearls, and the leaping water almost touched a most beautifully-painted dome.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the water out the lions's mouths |  |  | diamonds and pearls |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into diamond=Trajectory |
| 2 | **leap** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **touch** | past | the leaping water | a painted dome |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dome=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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