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title: You must therefore picture to yourself the most perfect features, jo… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You must therefore picture to yourself the most perfect features, joined to a brilliant and delicate complexion, and an enchanting expression, and even then imagination will fall short of the reality. Who acts: You, imagination. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Openi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 26

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You must therefore picture to yourself the most perfect features, joined to a brilliant and delicate complexion, and an enchanting expression, and even then imagination will fall short of the reality.

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**Who acts:** You, imagination · **What happens:** picture, join, enchant, fall · **To what, where:** yourself, perfect features

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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 (You, imagination), 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:pg128:23:26
# text = You must therefore picture to yourself the most perfect features, joined to a brilliant and delicate complexion, and an enchanting expression, and even then imagination will fall short of the reality.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	picture	picture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	complexion	complexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
28	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
31	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **picture** | must | You |  | yourself |  |  | therefore *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to yourself=be' |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | the perfect features *not said here* |  |  |  | to a brilliant complexion | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to complexion=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **enchant** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fall** | future | imagination |  |  |  | then | short *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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