--- title: "The king, her father, has carefully shielded this treasure from the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "The king, her father, has carefully shielded this treasure from the vulgar gaze, and has taken every precaution to keep her from the sight of everyone except the happy mortal he may choose to be her husband. Who acts: king, Danhasch. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/27/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/) / 27 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 27 "The king, her father, has carefully shielded this treasure from the vulgar gaze, and has taken every precaution to keep her from the sight of everyone except the happy mortal he may choose to be her husband. **Who acts:** king, Danhasch · **What happens:** shield, take, keep, choose, be, sight · **To what, where:** treasure, vulgar gaze, precaution, imagination, sight, happy mortal 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 (king, Danhasch), 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:pg128:23:27 # text = "The king, her father, has carefully shielded this treasure from the vulgar gaze, and has taken every precaution to keep her from the sight of everyone except the happy mortal he may choose to be her husband. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 shielded shield VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 vulgar vulgar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 gaze gaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 21 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 precaution precaution NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 28 nmod _ _ 31 except except ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 mortal mortal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shield** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the king and imagination's father | this treasure | | the vulgar gaze | | carefully *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the king and imagination's father *not said here* | every precaution | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the king and imagination's father *not said here* | | imagination | the sight of everyone | | | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary from sight=Eventuality | | 4 | **choose** *in a quote* | may | Danhasch | the happy mortal *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortal=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Danhasch *not said here* | imagination's husband | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sight** *in a quote* | | | everyone | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/28/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/)