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title: It has pleased Heaven to give me only one daughter, who possesses su… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It has pleased Heaven to give me only one daughter, who possesses such great beauty and charm that I could only give her to a prince as highly born and as accomplished as yourself. Who acts: kingdom, one daughter, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 20

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It has pleased Heaven to give me only one daughter, who possesses such great beauty and charm that I could only give her to a prince as highly born and as accomplished as yourself.

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**Who acts:** kingdom, one daughter, I · **What happens:** have, give, possess, bear, accomplish · **To what, where:** pleased Heaven, one daughter, me, such great beauty, Heaven

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, one daughter, I), 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:pg128:26:20
# text = It has pleased Heaven to give me only one daughter, who possesses such great beauty and charm that I could only give her to a prince as highly born and as accomplished as yourself.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | kingdom | pleased Heaven |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | kingdom *not said here* | one daughter | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | present | one daughter | such great beauty and charm |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beauty=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | could | I | such great beauty and charm | Heaven |  |  | to a prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient that=Theme |
| 5 | **bear** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **accomplish** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as yourself | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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