--- title: Next day the prince seized a favourable opportunity for making his r… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Next day the prince seized a favourable opportunity for making his request, and the king gladly granted it on condition that only one night should be spent out for fear of too great fatigue after such a long illness. Who acts: prince, favourable opportunity, king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights E --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/104/) [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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/) / 104 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 104 Next day the prince seized a favourable opportunity for making his request, and the king gladly granted it on condition that only one night should be spent out for fear of too great fatigue after such a long illness. **Who acts:** prince, favourable opportunity, king · **What happens:** seize, make, grant, spend out, request, fear · **To what, where:** favourable opportunity, request, condition, great fatigue 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 (prince, favourable opportunity, king), 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:pg128:24:104 # text = Next day the prince seized a favourable opportunity for making his request, and the king gladly granted it on condition that only one night should be spent out for fear of too great fatigue after such a long illness. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 favourable favourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 granted grant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 40 det:predet _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | past | the prince | a favourable opportunity | | | day | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | | 2 | **make** | gerund | a favourable opportunity *not said here* | prince's request | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product | | 3 | **grant** | past | the king | request | | condition | | gladly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **spend out** | should · passive | | condition | | | after such long illness; night | for fear of great fatigue | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: that=Asset for fear=Theme | | 5 | **request** | | prince | | | | | | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **fear** | | | great fatigue | | | | | nom fear «feeling 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 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/103/) - next →: [Opening, part 25, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/)