The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 42
As soon, then, as the fair Persian had put on her veil they fled together, and had the good fortune to get out of the town without being observed.
Who acts: fair Persian, doorkeeper · What happens: put on, flee, have, get out, observe · To what, where: veil, good fortune, town
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair Persian, doorkeeper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2398): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 fled | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 fled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Persian | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Persian | amod |
| 9 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | aux |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 veil | nmod:poss |
| 14 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fled | nsubj |
| 16 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 fled | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fled | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fortune | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fortune | amod |
| 23 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fortune | acl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 out | fixed |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 30 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 32 observed | mark |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 observed | aux:pass |
| 32 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 get | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on | past · perfect | the fair Persian | Persian's veil | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent veil=Goal | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | doorkeeper | then | soon, together property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | doorkeeper not said here | the good fortune | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get out | to-infinitive | doorkeeper not said here | the town | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | observe | gerund · passive | doorkeeper not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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