--- title: Kissing her hand, the beautiful slave said: "Madam, I do not know ho… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Kissing her hand, the beautiful slave said: "Madam, I do not know how you find me in this dress that you have had prepared for me; your women assure me that it suits me so well that they hardly knew me. Who acts: beautiful slave, you, dress, women. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful slave, you, dress, women), 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:pg128:28:25 # text = Kissing her hand, the beautiful slave said: "Madam, I do not know how you find me in this dress that you have had prepared for me; your women assure me that it suits me so well that they hardly knew me. 1 Kissing kiss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 assure assure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 suits suit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 46 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kiss** | gerund | the beautiful slave *not said here* | Noureddin's hand | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the beautiful slave | Madam | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the beautiful slave *= slave* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **find** *in a quote* | present | you | the beautiful slave *= slave* | | this dress | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | this dress | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **prepare** *in a quote* | participle | this dress *not said here* | | | | | for the beautiful slave *= slave* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary | | 7 | **assure** *in a quote* | present | your women | | the beautiful slave *= slave* | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 8 | **suit** *in a quote* | present | slave | the beautiful slave *= slave* | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **know** *in a quote* | past | women *= woman* | the beautiful slave *= slave* | | | | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/26/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/)