--- title: Before long the prince was quite restored to his original state of h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Before long the prince was quite restored to his original state of health, and as soon as he felt himself really strong he took Marzavan aside and said: Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/96/) [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/) / 96 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 96 Before long the prince was quite restored to his original state of health, and as soon as he felt himself really strong he took Marzavan aside and said: **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** long, restore, feel, take, say · **To what, where:** prince, original state, Marzavan · **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 (prince), 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:pg128:24:96 # text = Before long the prince was quite restored to his original state of health, and as soon as he felt himself really strong he took Marzavan aside and said: 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 long long VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 restored restore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 26 Marzavan Marzavan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 aside aside ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **long** | gerund | | the prince | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **restore** | past · passive | | | prince's original state of health | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to state=Recipient | | 3 | **feel** | past | prince | prince | | | | soon, strong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | past | prince | | Marzavan | | | aside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument marzavan=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/97/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/)