--- title: She soon returned saying that three Calenders, all blind in the righ… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: She soon returned saying that three Calenders, all blind in the right eye, and all with their heads, faces, and eyebrows clean shaved, begged for admittance, as they were newly arrived in Bagdad, and night had already fallen. " Who acts: Sadie, eyebrows. 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" **Who acts:** Sadie, eyebrows · **What happens:** return, say, clean, shave, beg, arrive · **To what, where:** eyebrows, Bagdad · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sadie, eyebrows), 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:pg128:6:50 # text = She soon returned saying that three Calenders, all blind in the right eye, and all with their heads, faces, and eyebrows clean shaved, begged for admittance, as they were newly arrived in Bagdad, and night had already fallen. " 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 Calenders calender NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 eyebrows eyebrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 shaved shave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 begged beg VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 ccomp _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 admittance admittance NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 36 newly newly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 arrived arrive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 already already ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | Sadie | | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Sadie *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **clean** | present | eyebrows | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shave** | participle | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle | eyebrows *not said here* | | | | | for admittance | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for admittance=Topic | | 6 | **arrive** | past · passive | | eyebrows *= eyebrow* | | Bagdad | | newly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fall** | past · perfect | Sadie *not said here* | | | | night | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/)