--- title: I never pass a day without going to gaze on this incomparable beauty… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I never pass a day without going to gaze on this incomparable beauty, and I am sure that if you would only accompany me you would think the sight well worth the trouble, and own that you never saw such loveliness before." Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/45/) [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/) / 45 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 45 I never pass a day without going to gaze on this incomparable beauty, and I am sure that if you would only accompany me you would think the sight well worth the trouble, and own that you never saw such loveliness before." **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** not pass, go, gaze, be, accompany, think · **To what, where:** me, sight, such loveliness 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 (I, you), 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:pg128:23:45 # text = I never pass a day without going to gaze on this incomparable beauty, and I am sure that if you would only accompany me you would think the sight well worth the trouble, and own that you never saw such loveliness before." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 gaze gaze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 incomparable incomparable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 accompany accompany VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 32 worth worth ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 42 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 loveliness loveliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 before before ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **pass** | present | I | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **gaze** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | on this incomparable beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on beauty=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **accompany** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | me | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | would | you | the sight | | | | worth the trouble; well *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sight=Theme | | 7 | **not** **see** | past | you | such loveliness | | | | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loveliness=Stimulus | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/)