--- title: "This prophecy struck the heart of my father with such woe, that he… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "This prophecy struck the heart of my father with such woe, that he never got over it, but that did not prevent him from attending carefully to my education till I attained, a short time ago, my fifteenth birthday. Who acts: prophecy, that, slaves, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainment --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/) / 69 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 69 "This prophecy struck the heart of my father with such woe, that he never got over it, but that did not prevent him from attending carefully to my education till I attained, a short time ago, my fifteenth birthday. **Who acts:** prophecy, that, slaves, my · **What happens:** strike, not get, not prevent, attend, attain, educate · **To what, where:** heart, woe, prophecy, fifteenth birthday This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophecy, that, slaves, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:11:69 # text = "This prophecy struck the heart of my father with such woe, that he never got over it, but that did not prevent him from attending carefully to my education till I attained, a short time ago, my fifteenth birthday. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 prophecy prophecy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 woe woe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 prevent prevent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 from from SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 attending attend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 29 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 till till SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 attained attain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 ago ago ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 fifteenth fifteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strike** *in a quote* | past | this prophecy | the heart of my father with such woe | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 2 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | past | prophecy | | | woe | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination | | 3 | **not** **prevent** *in a quote* | past · do-support | that | prophecy | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | | 4 | **attend** *in a quote* | gerund | that *not said here* | | | | | to my education; carefully *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to education=Theme | | 5 | **attain** *in a quote* | past | slaves *= slave* | my fifteenth birthday | | | | ago *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme | | 6 | **educate** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/70/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/11/)