--- title: "Very well," replied the prince: "then, impatient though I am to see… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Very well," replied the prince: "then, impatient though I am to see the princess, I will effect the cure where I stand, the better to convince you of my power." Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/34/) [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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/) / 34 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 34 "Very well," replied the prince: "then, impatient though I am to see the princess, I will effect the cure where I stand, the better to convince you of my power." **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** reply, see, effect, stand, convince · **To what, where:** princess, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. 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:pg128:25:34 # text = "Very well," replied the prince: "then, impatient though I am to see the princess, I will effect the cure where I stand, the better to convince you of my power." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 6 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 impatient impatient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 14 though though SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 parataxis _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 convince convince VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 csubj _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the prince | | | | | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* | the princess | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | | 3 | **effect** *in a quote* | future | the prince *= prince* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **convince** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | you | | | of my power | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/35/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/)