--- title: The vizir's advice once more struck the king as being good, and he s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The vizir's advice once more struck the king as being good, and he sent for his son, who lost no time in obeying the summons, and standing respectfully with downcast eyes before the king asked for his commands. Who acts: advice, son, time, king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/77/) [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/) / 77 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 77 The vizir's advice once more struck the king as being good, and he sent for his son, who lost no time in obeying the summons, and standing respectfully with downcast eyes before the king asked for his commands. **Who acts:** advice, son, time, king · **What happens:** strike, be, send, lose, obey, stand · **To what, where:** king, summons · **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 (advice, son, time, king), 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:pg128:22:77 # text = The vizir's advice once more struck the king as being good, and he sent for his son, who lost no time in obeying the summons, and standing respectfully with downcast eyes before the king asked for his commands. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vizir vizir NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 7 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 cop _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 in in SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 obeying obey VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 summons summon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 31 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 32 respectfully respectfully ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 downcast downcast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 commands command NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strike** | past | the vizir's advice | the king | | | | once *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Instrument | | 2 | **is** | gerund | the vizir's advice *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **send** | past | advice | | | | | for advice's son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | past | advice's son | | | | time | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **obey** | gerund | no time *not said here* | the summons | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Theme | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | the king *not said here* | | | | | with downcast eyes; respectfully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the king | | | | | for advice's commands | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **command** | | advice | | | | | | nom command «communication transitive»: 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/78/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/22/)