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title: Then a feast of the most delicate dishes was served in a room hung w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a feast of the most delicate dishes was served in a room hung with embroidered Indian fabrics. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 82

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Then a feast of the most delicate dishes was served in a room hung with embroidered Indian fabrics.

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**What happens:** serve, hang, embroider · **To what, where:** feast, room

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg128:8:82
# text = Then a feast of the most delicate dishes was served in a room hung with embroidered Indian fabrics.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
17	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fabrics	fabric	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past · passive |  | a feast of the delicate dishes |  | a room | then |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in room=Location |
| 2 | **hang** | participle |  | a room *not said here* |  |  |  | with embroidered Indian fabrics | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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