--- title: Then, putting a glass of wine into my wife's hand, she will say to h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Then, putting a glass of wine into my wife's hand, she will say to her, "There, present that to him yourself, he cannot have the cruelty to reject anything offered by so beautiful a hand," and my wife will take it and offer it to me tremblingly with tears in her eyes, but I shall look in the other d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/72/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/) / 72 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 72 Then, putting a glass of wine into my wife's hand, she will say to her, "There, present that to him yourself, he cannot have the cruelty to reject anything offered by so beautiful a hand," and my wife will take it and offer it to me tremblingly with tears in her eyes, but I shall look in the other direction. **Who acts:** mother, lord, wife, I · **What happens:** put, say, not have, reject, offer, take · **To what, where:** glass, hand, wife, present, lord, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mother, lord, wife, 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:pg128:20:72 # text = Then, putting a glass of wine into my wife's hand, she will say to her, "There, present that to him yourself, he cannot have the cruelty to reject anything offered by so beautiful a hand," and my wife will take it and offer it to me tremblingly with tears in her eyes, but I shall look in the other direction. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 27 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 cruelty cruelty NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 reject reject VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 obj _ _ 38 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 conj _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 obj _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 obl _ _ 57 tremblingly tremblingly ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 58 with with ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 64 but but CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 65 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 66 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 67 aux _ _ 67 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 parataxis _ _ 68 in in ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 70 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 71 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | gerund | | a glass of wine | | my wife's hand; there | then | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent glass=Goal | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | mother | | wife | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | can | lord | present | lord | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reject** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | lord *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 5 | **offer** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | beautiful *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | future | my wife | hand | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **offer** | infinitive | my wife *not said here* | hand | me | | | with tears in mother's eyes; tremblingly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Goal | | 8 | **look** | shall | I | | | | | in the other direction | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/73/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/20/)