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title: And whatever defects her body may have, pleasant ways and good behav… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And whatever defects her body may have, pleasant ways and good behaviour will go far to remedy them. Who acts: whatever, body, good behaviour. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 65

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And whatever defects her body may have, pleasant ways and good behaviour will go far to remedy them.

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**Who acts:** whatever, body, good behaviour · **What happens:** defect, have, go, remedy · **To what, where:** pleasant ways, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whatever, body, good behaviour), 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:pg128:34:65
# text = And whatever defects her body may have, pleasant ways and good behaviour will go far to remedy them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	defects	defect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	remedy	remedy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defect** | present | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | may | person's body | pleasant ways |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | future | good behaviour |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **remedy** | to-infinitive | good behaviour *not said here* | wife |  |  |  | far *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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