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title: The Sultan was sitting in the hall of justice when Abu Nowas entered… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan was sitting in the hall of justice when Abu Nowas entered, his eyes streaming with tears, for he had rubbed some pepper into them. Who acts: Sultan, Abu, eyes. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 86

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The Sultan was sitting in the hall of justice when Abu Nowas entered, his eyes streaming with tears, for he had rubbed some pepper into them.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, Abu, eyes · **What happens:** sit, enter, stream, rub · **To what, where:** hall, pepper

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, Abu, eyes), 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:pg2435:28:86
# text = The Sultan was sitting in the hall of justice when Abu Nowas entered, his eyes streaming with tears, for he had rubbed some pepper into them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	Abu	Abu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Sultan |  |  | the hall of justice |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 2 | **enter** | past | Abu |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stream** | gerund | Abu's eyes |  |  |  |  | with tears | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tear=Theme |
| 4 | **rub** | past · perfect | Abu | some pepper |  |  |  | into eyes *= eye* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme into they=Destination |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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