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title: As soon as the monarch saw my writing he did not so much as look at… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the monarch saw my writing he did not so much as look at the samples of the merchants, but desired his officials to take the finest and most richly caparisoned horse in his stables, together with the most magnificent dress they could procure, and to put it on the person who had written th
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 24

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As soon as the monarch saw my writing he did not so much as look at the samples of the merchants, but desired his officials to take the finest and most richly caparisoned horse in his stables, together with the most magnificent dress they could procure, and to put it on the person who had written those lines, and bring him to court.

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**Who acts:** monarch, officials, my · **What happens:** see, look, desire, take, caparison, procure · **To what, where:** writing, officials, finest caparisoned horse, stables, horse, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch, officials, my), 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:pg128:10:24
# text = As soon as the monarch saw my writing he did not so much as look at the samples of the merchants, but desired his officials to take the finest and most richly caparisoned horse in his stables, together with the most magnificent dress they could procure, and to put it on the person who had written those lines, and bring him to court.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	samples	sample	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
30	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
40	together	together	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	44	advmod	_	_
44	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl:relcl	_	_
60	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	61	det	_	_
61	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the monarch | my writing |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past · do-support | monarch |  |  |  |  | at the samples of the merchants | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sample=Theme |
| 3 | **desire** | past | the monarch *not said here* | monarch's officials |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot official=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | the monarch *not said here* | the finest caparisoned horse |  | monarch's stables |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Value in stable=Location |
| 5 | **caparison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **procure** | could | officials *= official* |  |  |  |  | with the magnificent dress; together *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **put** | to-infinitive | officials *= official* *not said here* | horse |  |  |  | on the person | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on person=Destination |
| 8 | **write** | past · perfect · passive |  | the person |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient line=Topic |
| 9 | **bring** | infinitive | officials *= official* *not said here* | monarch |  | court |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination |
| 10 | **write** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **sample** |  |  | the merchants |  |  |  |  | nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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