--- title: I have no wish to weary your Highness by dwelling on the sad thought… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I have no wish to weary your Highness by dwelling on the sad thoughts which accompanied my change of shape, but it may interest you to hear that the next morning my host went out early to do his marketing, and returned laden with the sheep's heads, and tongues and trotters that formed his stock in t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/19/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/) / 19 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 19 I have no wish to weary your Highness by dwelling on the sad thoughts which accompanied my change of shape, but it may interest you to hear that the next morning my host went out early to do his marketing, and returned laden with the sheep's heads, and tongues and trotters that formed his stock in trade for the day. **Who acts:** I, sad thoughts, change, you, host, tongues · **What happens:** have, weary, dwell, accompany, interest, hear · **To what, where:** wish, Highness, sad thoughts, change, marketing, stock This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sad thoughts, change, you), 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:pg128:35:19 # text = I have no wish to weary your Highness by dwelling on the sad thoughts which accompanied my change of shape, but it may interest you to hear that the next morning my host went out early to do his marketing, and returned laden with the sheep's heads, and tongues and trotters that formed his stock in trade for the day. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 weary weary VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 Highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 dwelling dwell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 accompanied accompany VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 36 out out ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 marketing marketing NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 laden lade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 49 's 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 53 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 nsubj _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 trotters trotter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 conj _ _ 56 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ _ 57 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 58 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 62 for for ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | no wish | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | | 2 | **weary** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your Highness | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus highness=Experiencer | | 3 | **dwell** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | the sad thoughts | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thought=Location | | 4 | **accompany** | past | the sad thoughts | my change of shape | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | | 5 | **interest** | may | change | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hear** | to-infinitive | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **go out** | past | my host | | | | morning | early, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | my host *not said here* | host's marketing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marketing=Eventuality | | 9 | **lade** | past · passive | | | | | | with the sheep's heads | tree rules | | 10 | **form** | past | tongues and trotters | host's stock | | trade | day | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stock=Theme | | 11 | **change** | | shape | | | | | | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 12 | **market** | | host | | | | | | nom marketing «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 13 | **stock** | | host | | | | | | nom stock «possession 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/20/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/)