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title: You have had the good grace to fall in with my humour, and to preten… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You have had the good grace to fall in with my humour, and to pretend to eat and to drink when nothing was there. Who acts: You, nothing, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 13

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You have had the good grace to fall in with my humour, and to pretend to eat and to drink when nothing was there.

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**Who acts:** You, nothing, my · **What happens:** have, fall in, pretend, eat, drink, be · **To what, where:** good grace

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, nothing, my), 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:pg128:22:13
# text = You have had the good grace to fall in with my humour, and to pretend to eat and to drink when nothing was there.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | You | the good grace |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Patient |
| 2 | **fall in** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with my humour | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **humour** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom humour «feeling 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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