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title: The present king has one only daughter, who is so perfectly lovely t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The present king has one only daughter, who is so perfectly lovely that neither you, nor I, nor any other creature could find adequate terms in which to describe her marvellous charms. Who acts: present king, one daughter, other creature. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew L
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 25

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The present king has one only daughter, who is so perfectly lovely that neither you, nor I, nor any other creature could find adequate terms in which to describe her marvellous charms.

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**Who acts:** present king, one daughter, other creature · **What happens:** have, be, find, describe · **To what, where:** one daughter, adequate terms, marvellous charms

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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 (present king, one daughter, other creature), 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:pg128:23:25
# text = The present king has one only daughter, who is so perfectly lovely that neither you, nor I, nor any other creature could find adequate terms in which to describe her marvellous charms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the present king | one daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | one daughter |  |  |  |  | lovely, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | could | any other creature | adequate terms |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic |
| 4 | **describe** | to-infinitive | any other creature *not said here* | creature's marvellous charms |  | adequate terms |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent charm=Theme |

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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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