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title: I knocked, and desired the servant to beg her master to come down as… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I knocked, and desired the servant to beg her master to come down as fast as possible and see a sick man whom we had brought for him to cure; and in order to hasten his movements I placed a piece of money in her hand as the doctor's fee. Who acts: I, master, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights En
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 11

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I knocked, and desired the servant to beg her master to come down as fast as possible and see a sick man whom we had brought for him to cure; and in order to hasten his movements I placed a piece of money in her hand as the doctor's fee.

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**Who acts:** I, master, man · **What happens:** knock, desire, beg, come down, see, bring · **To what, where:** servant, master, sick man, movements, piece, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, master, man), 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:pg128:20:11
# text = I knocked, and desired the servant to beg her master to come down as fast as possible and see a sick man whom we had brought for him to cure; and in order to hasten his movements I placed a piece of money in her hand as the doctor's fee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
35	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	fixed	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
49	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	's	's	PART	POS	_	51	case	_	_
53	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **desire** | past | I *not said here* | the servant |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot servant=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | tailor's master |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tailor's master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down, fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | tailor's master *not said here* | a sick man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 6 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | a sick man |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 7 | **cure** | to-infinitive | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |
| 8 | **hasten** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | man's movements |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent movement=Patient |
| 9 | **place** | past | I | a piece of money |  | tailor's hand |  | as the doctor's fee | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Destination |
| 10 | **move** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=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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