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title: The lady who had led him hither stood watching him with amusement, t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady who had led him hither stood watching him with amusement, till the porteress exclaimed, "Why don't you come in, my sister? Who acts: lady, porteress, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 17

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The lady who had led him hither stood watching him with amusement, till the porteress exclaimed, "Why don't you come in, my sister?

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**Who acts:** lady, porteress, you · **What happens:** lead, stand, watch, exclaim, not come in · **To what, where:** man, sister · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, porteress, you), 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:pg128:6:17
# text = The lady who had led him hither stood watching him with amusement, till the porteress exclaimed, "Why don't you come in, my sister?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	porteress	porteress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · perfect | the lady | man |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | the lady *not said here* | man |  |  |  | with amusement | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the porteress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **come in** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | my sister |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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