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title: There are plenty of kings and queens in the fairy tales, just becaus… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: There are plenty of kings and queens in the fairy tales, just because long ago there were plenty of kings in the country. Who acts: plenty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 16

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There are plenty of kings and queens in the fairy tales, just because long ago there were plenty of kings in the country.

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**Who acts:** plenty · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fairy tales

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty), 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:pg128:1:16
# text = There are plenty of kings and queens in the fairy tales, just because long ago there were plenty of kings in the country.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl:relcl	_	_
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | plenty of kings and queens |  |  | the fairy tales; there |  | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |

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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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