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title: Glance at that couch, and say without any partiality whether you thi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Glance at that couch, and say without any partiality whether you think the youth or the maiden lying there the more beautiful." Who acts: Glance, you, maiden. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 79

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Glance at that couch, and say without any partiality whether you think the youth or the maiden lying there the more beautiful."

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**Who acts:** Glance, you, maiden · **What happens:** say, think, lie · **To what, where:** youth, beautiful · **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 (Glance, you, maiden), 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:pg128:23:79
# text = Glance at that couch, and say without any partiality whether you think the youth or the maiden lying there the more beautiful."
1	Glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	partiality	partiality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Glance at that couch |  |  |  |  | without any partiality | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you | the youth or the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot youth=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the maiden *not said here* | the beautiful |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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