--- title: "My daughter," she answered, "is, as you see, as accomplished a magi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My daughter," she answered, "is, as you see, as accomplished a magician as Amina herself, but you would be astonished at the amount of good she does by her knowledge. Who acts: daughter, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/81/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/) / 81 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 81 "My daughter," she answered, "is, as you see, as accomplished a magician as Amina herself, but you would be astonished at the amount of good she does by her knowledge. **Who acts:** daughter, you · **What happens:** answer, be, see, accomplish, astonish, do · **To what, where:** daughter, magician, you, amount · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, 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:pg128:35:81 # text = "My daughter," she answered, "is, as you see, as accomplished a magician as Amina herself, but you would be astonished at the amount of good she does by her knowledge. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 accomplished accomplish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 ccomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Amina Amina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 astonished astonish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 nmod _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | daughter | My daughter *not said here* | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | My daughter | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **accomplish** *in a quote* | participle | | a magician | | | | as Amina; daughter *obl* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Eventuality | | 5 | **astonish** *in a quote* | would · passive | | you | | the amount of good | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | daughter | the amount of good *not said here* | | | | by daughter's knowledge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Eventuality | 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/pg128/35/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/82/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/)