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title: It did not take long for us to arrive at the scene of the prince's d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It did not take long for us to arrive at the scene of the prince's disappearance, or to discover the tomb I had sought so vainly before. Who acts: It, us, I, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 109

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It did not take long for us to arrive at the scene of the prince's disappearance, or to discover the tomb I had sought so vainly before.

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**Who acts:** It, us, I, prince · **What happens:** not take, arrive, discover, seek, disappear · **To what, where:** scene, tomb

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, us, I, prince), 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:pg128:7:109
# text = It did not take long for us to arrive at the scene of the prince's disappearance, or to discover the tomb I had sought so vainly before.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | It |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrive** | to-infinitive | us |  |  | the scene of the prince's disappearance |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **discover** | to-infinitive |  | the tomb |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** | past · perfect | I | the tomb *not said here* |  |  |  | before *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme |
| 5 | **disappear** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=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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