--- title: He then led the gardener to the cave, and having shown him the treas… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: He then led the gardener to the cave, and having shown him the treasure stored up there, said how happy it made him that Heaven should in this way reward his kind host's many virtues and compensate him for the privations of many years. Who acts: fortune, treasure, Heaven. A sentence of «The Arabian --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/65/) [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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/) / 65 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 65 He then led the gardener to the cave, and having shown him the treasure stored up there, said how happy it made him that Heaven should in this way reward his kind host's many virtues and compensate him for the privations of many years. **Who acts:** fortune, treasure, Heaven · **What happens:** lead, show, store up, say, make, reward · **To what, where:** gardener, cave, treasure, fortune, many virtues, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (fortune, treasure, Heaven), 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:pg128:26:65 # text = He then led the gardener to the cave, and having shown him the treasure stored up there, said how happy it made him that Heaven should in this way reward his kind host's many virtues and compensate him for the privations of many years. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 led lead 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 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 aux _ _ 12 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 stored store VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 27 Heaven Heaven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 32 reward reward VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 virtues virtue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 compensate compensate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 privations privation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | fortune | the gardener | | the cave | then | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gardener=Theme to cave=Destination | | 2 | **show** | gerund · perfect | fortune *not said here* | the treasure | fortune | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Topic | | 3 | **store up** | participle | | the treasure *not said here* | | there | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fortune *not said here* | | | | | happy *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** | past | treasure | fortune | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | | 6 | **reward** | should | Heaven | fortune's kind host's many virtues | | this way | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent virtue=Recipient | | 7 | **compensate** | infinitive | Heaven *not said here* | | fortune | | | for the privations of many years | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme he=Recipient | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/66/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/)