--- title: "This,"--continued the barber,--"is the tale I related to the Caliph… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "This,"--continued the barber,--"is the tale I related to the Caliph, who, when I had finished, burst into fits of laughter. Who acts: This, passing caravan, Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/24/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/) / 24 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 24 "This,"--continued the barber,--"is the tale I related to the Caliph, who, when I had finished, burst into fits of laughter. **Who acts:** This, passing caravan, Caliph · **What happens:** continue, be, relate, finish, burst · **To what, where:** barber, tale, Caliph, fits 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 (This, passing caravan, Caliph), 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:pg128:22:24 # text = "This,"--continued the barber,--"is the tale I related to the Caliph, who, when I had finished, burst into fits of laughter. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 barber barber NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 related relate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Caliph Caliph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 burst burst VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | This | the barber | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent barber=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the tale | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **relate** *in a quote* | past | a passing caravan *= caravan* | the tale *not said here* | the Caliph | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to caliph=Recipient | | 4 | **finish** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the Caliph | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **burst** *in a quote* | participle | | the Caliph *not said here* | | fits of laughter | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/)