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title: The fairy only answered with a peal of laughter, and when at length… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy only answered with a peal of laughter, and when at length she had control of her voice she cried, "Oh, come, you are making game of me! Who acts: fairy, Maimoune, you, laughter. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 46

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The fairy only answered with a peal of laughter, and when at length she had control of her voice she cried, "Oh, come, you are making game of me!

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**Who acts:** fairy, Maimoune, you, laughter · **What happens:** answer, have, cry, come, make, peal · **To what, where:** control, voice, length, game · **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 (fairy, Maimoune, you, laughter), 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:pg128:23:46
# text = The fairy only answered with a peal of laughter, and when at length she had control of her voice she cried, "Oh, come, you are making game of me!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peal	peal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	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 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the fairy |  |  |  |  | with a peal of laughter | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | Maimoune | control of Maimoune's voice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Maimoune | Maimoune's voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | the fairy *not said here* |  |  | length |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | game of me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Product |
| 6 | **peal** |  | laughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom peal «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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