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title: Imagine the prince's dismay at losing a thing by which his wife evid… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine the prince's dismay at losing a thing by which his wife evidently set such store! Who acts: you, wife, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 84

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Imagine the prince's dismay at losing a thing by which his wife evidently set such store!

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**Who acts:** you, wife, prince · **What happens:** imagine, lose, set, dismay · **To what, where:** dismay, thing, such store

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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 (you, wife, prince), 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:pg128:25:84
# text = Imagine the prince's dismay at losing a thing by which his wife evidently set such store!
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the prince's dismay |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dismay=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  | a thing |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **set** | past | Prince's wife | such store |  |  |  | evidently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by which=Destination |
| 4 | **dismay** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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