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title: I am so impatient to see my beloved princess once more that I am sur… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I am so impatient to see my beloved princess once more that I am sure I shall fall ill again if we do not start soon. Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 98

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I am so impatient to see my beloved princess once more that I am sure I shall fall ill again if we do not start soon.

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**Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** be, see, fall, not start · **To what, where:** beloved princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, we), 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:pg128:24:98
# text = I am so impatient to see my beloved princess once more that I am sure I shall fall ill again if we do not start soon.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | impatient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my beloved princess |  |  |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | shall | I |  |  |  | again | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **start** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | we |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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