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title: The prince thanked the king in the warmest and most respectful terms… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince thanked the king in the warmest and most respectful terms, and added: "As regards my person, your Majesty has rightly guessed that I am not an astrologer. Who acts: prince, person. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 55

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The prince thanked the king in the warmest and most respectful terms, and added: "As regards my person, your Majesty has rightly guessed that I am not an astrologer.

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**Who acts:** prince, person · **What happens:** thank, add, guess, not be · **To what, where:** king, warmest terms, astrologer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, person), 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:pg128:25:55
# text = The prince thanked the king in the warmest and most respectful terms, and added: "As regards my person, your Majesty has rightly guessed that I am not an astrologer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	warmest	warm	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	As	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	regards	regards	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	obl	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the prince |  | the king | the warmest terms |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **guess** *in a quote* | present · perfect | my person |  |  |  |  | as regards; rightly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* | a astrologer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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