--- title: I told my story, concealing nothing, and his surprise and delight we… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I told my story, concealing nothing, and his surprise and delight were so great that he ordered my adventures to be written in letters of gold and laid up in the archives of his kingdom. Who acts: I, surprise, king, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/3/) [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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/) / 3 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 3 I told my story, concealing nothing, and his surprise and delight were so great that he ordered my adventures to be written in letters of gold and laid up in the archives of his kingdom. **Who acts:** I, surprise, king, my · **What happens:** tell, conceal, be, order, write, lay up · **To what, where:** story, nothing, adventures, letters, archives, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, surprise, king, 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:pg128:18:3 # text = I told my story, concealing nothing, and his surprise and delight were so great that he ordered my adventures to be written in letters of gold and laid up in the archives of his kingdom. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 concealing conceal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 archives archive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | my story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 2 | **conceal** | gerund | I *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | king's surprise and delight | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **order** | past | king | my adventures | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | | 5 | **write** | to-infinitive · passive | king *not said here* | | | letters of gold | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in letter=Destination | | 6 | **lay up** | participle | king *not said here* | | | the archives of king's kingdom | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in archive=Destination | | 7 | **surprise** | | king | | | | | | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **adventure** | | my | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **letter** | | | gold | | | | | nom letter «communication 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/4/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/)