--- title: Very soon he decided that he could not have chosen a pleasanter plac… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Very soon he decided that he could not have chosen a pleasanter place; a delicious perfume of aloes wood and pastilles came from the open windows and mingled with the scent of the rose water which steamed up from the hot pavement. Who acts: breeze, delicious perfume, rose water. A sentence of «The A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/6/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/) / 6 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 6 Very soon he decided that he could not have chosen a pleasanter place; a delicious perfume of aloes wood and pastilles came from the open windows and mingled with the scent of the rose water which steamed up from the hot pavement. **Who acts:** breeze, delicious perfume, rose water · **What happens:** decide, not choose, come, mingle, steam up, perfume · **To what, where:** pleasanter place, open windows, hot pavement, aloes, rose water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breeze, delicious perfume, rose water), 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:pg128:13:6 # text = Very soon he decided that he could not have chosen a pleasanter place; a delicious perfume of aloes wood and pastilles came from the open windows and mingled with the scent of the rose water which steamed up from the hot pavement. 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux _ _ 10 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 pleasanter pleasant ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 perfume perfume NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 aloes aloe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 pastilles pastille NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 mingled mingle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 steamed steam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | past | breeze | | | | | soon *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **choose** | could · perfect | breeze | a pleasanter place | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | a delicious perfume of aloes | | | the open windows | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from window=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **mingle** | past | a delicious perfume of aloes *not said here* | | | | | with the scent of the rose water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with scent=Co-Patient | | 5 | **steam up** | past | the rose water | | | the hot pavement | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from pavement=Source | | 6 | **perfume** | | | aloes | | | | | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **scent** | | | the rose water | | | | | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/13/)