---
title: My daughter," exclaimed my guide, "I have brought you the famous dog… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: My daughter," exclaimed my guide, "I have brought you the famous dog belonging to the baker which can tell good money from bad. Who acts: daughter, I, famous dog, baker. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/60/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 60

# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 60

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
My daughter," exclaimed my guide, "I have brought you the famous dog belonging to the baker which can tell good money from bad.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** daughter, I, famous dog, baker · **What happens:** exclaim, bring, belong, tell · **To what, where:** guide, famous dog, you, good money, bad · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (daughter, I, famous dog, baker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg128:35:60
# text = My daughter," exclaimed my guide, "I have brought you the famous dog belonging to the baker which can tell good money from bad.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | My daughter | my guide |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect | I | the famous dog | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination dog=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | the famous dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the baker | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | the baker | good money |  | bad |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/59/)
- next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/61/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/)