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title: "What a marvel of beauty he must be when his eyes are open!" she tho… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "What a marvel of beauty he must be when his eyes are open!" she thought. " Who acts: marvel, Maimoune, beauty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 13

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"What a marvel of beauty he must be when his eyes are open!" she thought. "

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**Who acts:** marvel, Maimoune, beauty · **What happens:** be, think, marvel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marvel, Maimoune, beauty), 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:pg128:23:13
# text = "What a marvel of beauty he must be when his eyes are open!" she thought. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | must | a marvel of beauty |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Maimoune |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 3 | **marvel** *in a quote* |  | beauty |  |  |  |  |  | nom marvel «event intransitive»: of=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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