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title: But his wife, who had twice his brains, suddenly exclaimed, "I have… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But his wife, who had twice his brains, suddenly exclaimed, "I have thought of something! Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 51

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But his wife, who had twice his brains, suddenly exclaimed, "I have thought of something!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** exclaim, think · **To what, where:** wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg128:19:51
# text = But his wife, who had twice his brains, suddenly exclaimed, "I have thought of something!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
7	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive |  | doctor's wife |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | of something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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