--- title: In your own interest, I feel sure you would be much happier if you e… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: In your own interest, I feel sure you would be much happier if you entrusted ten more of them to me, for with my practice it is all one to me if I take two or a hundred." Who acts: I, you, grasp, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/81/) [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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/) / 81 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 81 In your own interest, I feel sure you would be much happier if you entrusted ten more of them to me, for with my practice it is all one to me if I take two or a hundred." **Who acts:** I, you, grasp, your, my · **What happens:** feel, be, entrust, take, interest, practice · **To what, where:** ten more, me, one, two This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, grasp, 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:pg128:33:81 # text = In your own interest, I feel sure you would be much happier if you entrusted ten more of them to me, for with my practice it is all one to me if I take two or a hundred." 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 12 much much ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 happier happy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 ccomp _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 entrusted entrust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obj _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | I | | | | | in your own interest; sure *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in interest=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | would | you | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **entrust** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | ten more of paces | me | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Theme to i=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | grasp | one | me | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | two | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | | 6 | **interest** | | your | | | | | | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **practice** | | my | | | | | | nom practice «act 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/82/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/33/)