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title: The king, much moved, begged the vizir to examine into this new misf… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, much moved, begged the vizir to examine into this new misfortune, and the latter at once went to the tower, where he found the prince quietly reading a book. Who acts: king, latter. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 1

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The king, much moved, begged the vizir to examine into this new misfortune, and the latter at once went to the tower, where he found the prince quietly reading a book.

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**Who acts:** king, latter · **What happens:** move, beg, examine, go, find, read · **To what, where:** vizir, new misfortune, tower, prince, book

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, latter), 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:pg128:24:1
# text = The king, much moved, begged the vizir to examine into this new misfortune, and the latter at once went to the tower, where he found the prince quietly reading a book.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
20	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **move** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the king | the vizir |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient |
| 3 | **examine** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  | this new misfortune |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | the latter |  |  | the tower |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **find** | past | king | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic |
| 6 | **read** | gerund | king *not said here* | a book |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

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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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