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description: The prince recognised her at once, and, embracing her with the utmost tenderness, cried, "Ah, how can I thank the king for this delightful surprise?" Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 70

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The prince recognised her at once, and, embracing her with the utmost tenderness, cried, "Ah, how can I thank the king for this delightful surprise?"

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** recognise, embrace, cry, thank · **To what, where:** Majesty, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg128:27:70
# text = The prince recognised her at once, and, embracing her with the utmost tenderness, cried, "Ah, how can I thank the king for this delightful surprise?"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	embracing	embrace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | the prince | Majesty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **embrace** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | Majesty |  |  |  | with the utmost tenderness | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | can | the prince *= prince* |  | the king |  |  | for this delightful surprise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme for surprise=Attribute |

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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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