--- title: It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble. Who acts: voyage, marvel, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/34/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/) / 34 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 34 It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble. **Who acts:** voyage, marvel, I · **What happens:** be, have, meet, tempt, risk · **To what, where:** marvel, five times, fortune, fresh trouble This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voyage, marvel, I), 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:pg128:17:34 # text = It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 marvel marvel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 conj _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 12 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 shipwreck shipwreck NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 unheard unheard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 perils peril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 tempt tempt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 26 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 risk risk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 29 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | must | voyage | a marvel | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | gerund | a marvel *not said here* | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **meet** | participle | | five times *not said here* | | | | with shipwreck | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with shipwreck=Co-Agent | | 4 | **tempt** | could | I | fortune | | | again | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient | | 5 | **risk** | infinitive | I *not said here* | fresh trouble | | | | | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Pivot | 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/35/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/)