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title: Bring your princess here and lay her down beside my prince. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Bring your princess here and lay her down beside my prince. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 58

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Bring your princess here and lay her down beside my prince.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bring, lay down · **To what, where:** princess

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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), 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:pg128:23:58
# text = Bring your princess here and lay her down beside my prince.
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your princess | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
| 2 | **lay down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | princess |  |  |  | beside my prince | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme beside prince=Destination |

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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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