--- title: "You are welcome to try," said the king, "but I make one condition,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "You are welcome to try," said the king, "but I make one condition, which is, that should you fail you will lose your life." Who acts: You, king, one condition. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/60/) [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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/) / 60 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 60 "You are welcome to try," said the king, "but I make one condition, which is, that should you fail you will lose your life." **Who acts:** You, king, one condition · **What happens:** be, try, say, make, not lose · **To what, where:** one condition, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (You, king, one condition), 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:pg128:24:60 # text = "You are welcome to try," said the king, "but I make one condition, which is, that should you fail you will lose your life." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 24 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 appos _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | welcome *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **try** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present | king | one condition | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Product | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | should · present | one condition | | | | | fail *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **lose** *in a quote* | future | you | your life | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | 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/pg128/24/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/)