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title: The ladies were delighted at the idea, and Sadie went to see what sh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The ladies were delighted at the idea, and Sadie went to see what she could find, returning in a few moments laden with two different kinds of flutes and a tambourine. Who acts: ladies, Sadie, few moments. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its de
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 65

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The ladies were delighted at the idea, and Sadie went to see what she could find, returning in a few moments laden with two different kinds of flutes and a tambourine.

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**Who acts:** ladies, Sadie, few moments · **What happens:** be, go, see, find, return, laden · **To what, where:** idea · **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 (ladies, Sadie, few moments), 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:pg128:6:65
# text = The ladies were delighted at the idea, and Sadie went to see what she could find, returning in a few moments laden with two different kinds of flutes and a tambourine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	laden	laden	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	flutes	flute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tambourine	tambourine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ladies |  |  | the idea |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Sadie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Sadie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **find** | could | Sadie |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **return** | gerund | Sadie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **laden** | present | a few moments |  |  |  |  | with two different kinds of flutes and a tambourine | tree rules |

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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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