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title: For the first time since his separation from the princess he had a g… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: For the first time since his separation from the princess he had a good night, and next morning he was up at day-break and went cheerfully to ask what work he should do. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 52

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For the first time since his separation from the princess he had a good night, and next morning he was up at day-break and went cheerfully to ask what work he should do.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** have, go, ask, do, separate · **To what, where:** princess, work

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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 (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:pg128:26:52
# text = For the first time since his separation from the princess he had a good night, and next morning he was up at day-break and went cheerfully to ask what work he should do.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	since	since	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	33	det	_	_
33	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Prince | the princess *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  | what work |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | should | Prince | what work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 5 | **separate** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | from the princess | nom separation «state intransitive»: poss=agent from=obl |

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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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