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title: "I want a scented bath," he said, "a richly embroidered habit, a hor… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "I want a scented bath," he said, "a richly embroidered habit, a horse surpassing the Sultan's, and twenty slaves to attend me. Who acts: Aladdin, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 103

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"I want a scented bath," he said, "a richly embroidered habit, a horse surpassing the Sultan's, and twenty slaves to attend me.

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**Who acts:** Aladdin, horse · **What happens:** want, scent, say, embroider, surpass, attend · **To what, where:** scented bath, embroidered habit, Sultan, Aladdin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, horse), 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:pg128:31:103
# text = "I want a scented bath," he said, "a richly embroidered habit, a horse surpassing the Sultan's, and twenty slaves to attend me.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	surpassing	surpass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Aladdin | a scented bath |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bath=Theme |
| 2 | **scent** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aladdin | a embroidered habit and a horse and twenty slaves |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **embroider** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **surpass** *in a quote* | gerund | a horse *not said here* | the Sultan |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sultan=Theme |
| 6 | **attend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Aladdin *not said here* | a embroidered habit and a horse and twenty slaves *not said here* | Aladdin |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Goal |

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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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