--- title: "When the barber," he continued, "had finished his tale, we came to… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "When the barber," he continued, "had finished his tale, we came to the conclusion that the young man had been right, when he had accused him of being a great chatter-box. Who acts: barber, we, young man, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/30/) [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/) / 30 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 30 "When the barber," he continued, "had finished his tale, we came to the conclusion that the young man had been right, when he had accused him of being a great chatter-box. **Who acts:** barber, we, young man, man · **What happens:** continue, finish, come, be, accuse, tell · **To what, where:** tale, conclusion, barber · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (barber, we, young man, man), 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:pg128:22:30 # text = "When the barber," he continued, "had finished his tale, we came to the conclusion that the young man had been right, when he had accused him of being a great chatter-box. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 barber barber NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 conclusion conclusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 cop _ _ 27 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 accused accuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 chatter chatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | barber | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **finish** *in a quote* | past · perfect | barber *not said here* | barber's tale | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tale=Eventuality | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | we | | | the conclusion | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the young man | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **accuse** *in a quote* | past · perfect | man | barber | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | of a great chatter box | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *in a quote* | | barber | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/)