--- title: Danhasch readily consented, and after having the tower where the pri… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Danhasch readily consented, and after having the tower where the prince was confined pointed out to him, and making a wager with Maimoune as to the result of the comparison, he flew off to China to fetch the princess. Who acts: Danhasch. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/60/) [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/) / 60 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 60 Danhasch readily consented, and after having the tower where the prince was confined pointed out to him, and making a wager with Maimoune as to the result of the comparison, he flew off to China to fetch the princess. **Who acts:** Danhasch · **What happens:** consent, have, confine, point out, make, fly off · **To what, where:** tower, prince, wager, China, princess, comparison 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 (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:pg128:23:60 # text = Danhasch readily consented, and after having the tower where the prince was confined pointed out to him, and making a wager with Maimoune as to the result of the comparison, he flew off to China to fetch the princess. 1 Danhasch Danhasch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 readily readily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 confined confine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 21 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wager wager NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Maimoune Maimoune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 comparison comparison NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consent** | past | Danhasch | | | | | readily *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | gerund | Danhasch *not said here* | the tower | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Patient | | 3 | **confine** | past · passive | | the prince | | | | | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Goal | | 4 | **point out** | participle | | | prince | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **make** | gerund | Danhasch *not said here* | a wager | | | | with Maimoune; as the result of the comparison | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wager=Product | | 6 | **fly off** | past | Danhasch | | China | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to china=Result | | 7 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | Danhasch *not said here* | the princess | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | | 8 | **result** | | | the comparison | | | | | nom result «phenomenon 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/)