--- title: When he returned she asked him to drink her health in the wine of Af… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When he returned she asked him to drink her health in the wine of Africa, handing him her cup in exchange for his as a sign she was reconciled to him. Who acts: Aladdin, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/68/) [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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/) / 68 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 68 When he returned she asked him to drink her health in the wine of Africa, handing him her cup in exchange for his as a sign she was reconciled to him. **Who acts:** Aladdin, princess · **What happens:** return, ask, drink, hand, reconcile, sign · **To what, where:** Aladdin, health, wine, cup, exchange, princess This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, princess), 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:pg128:32:68 # text = When he returned she asked him to drink her health in the wine of Africa, handing him her cup in exchange for his as a sign she was reconciled to him. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 handing hand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 reconciled reconcile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | Aladdin | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | princess | | Aladdin | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | princess's health | | the wine of Africa | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient | | 4 | **hand** | gerund | princess *not said here* | princess's cup | Aladdin | exchange for Aladdin's sign | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cup=Theme | | 5 | **reconcile** | past · passive | | princess | Aladdin | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sign** | | Aladdin | | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/)