--- title: "No," answered the genius; "but that will not prevent me from killin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "No," answered the genius; "but that will not prevent me from killing you; and I am only going to grant you one favour, and that is to choose the manner of your death." Who acts: genius, that, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/92/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/) / 92 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 92 "No," answered the genius; "but that will not prevent me from killing you; and I am only going to grant you one favour, and that is to choose the manner of your death." **Who acts:** genius, that, your · **What happens:** answer, not prevent, kill, go, grant, be · **To what, where:** genius, you, one favour · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, that, your), 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:pg128:3:92 # text = "No," answered the genius; "but that will not prevent me from killing you; and I am only going to grant you one favour, and that is to choose the manner of your death." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 genius genius NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 prevent prevent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 from from SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 killing kill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the genius | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **prevent** *in a quote* | future | that | the genius *= genius* | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme | | 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | gerund | that *not said here* | you | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the genius *= genius* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **grant** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the genius *= genius* *not said here* | one favour | you | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal favour=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | choose *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **die** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/93/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/)