--- title: She opened one to let her friend taste the olives and to taste them… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: She opened one to let her friend taste the olives and to taste them herself, but great was her surprise when, on pouring some into a dish, she found them all powdered with gold dust. " Who acts: Badoura, friend, olives. 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" **Who acts:** Badoura, friend, olives · **What happens:** open, let, taste, be, pour, find · **To what, where:** one, friend, olives, great surprise, some, dish This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura, friend, olives), 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:pg128:27:14 # text = She opened one to let her friend taste the olives and to taste them herself, but great was her surprise when, on pouring some into a dish, she found them all powdered with gold dust. " 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 22 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 on on SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 pouring pour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 advcl _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 obj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 powdered powder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 xcomp _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | Badoura | one | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | Badoura *not said here* | Badoura's friend | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **taste** | infinitive | Badoura's friend *not said here* | the olives | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme olive=Attribute | | 4 | **taste** | to-infinitive | Badoura's friend *not said here* | olives *= olive* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme herself=Attribute | | 5 | **is a** | past | | Badoura's great surprise | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pour** | gerund | | some | | a dish | | | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme into dish=Destination | | 7 | **find** | past | Badoura | olives *= olive* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | | 8 | **powder** | participle | olives *= olive* *not said here* | | | | | with gold dust | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dust=Theme | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/15/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/)