--- title: But, without condemning your treatment of her, I wish you to reflect… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: But, without condemning your treatment of her, I wish you to reflect how much she must suffer from being changed into an animal, and I hope you will let that punishment be enough. Who acts: I, story, you, punishment. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/99/) [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/) / 99 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 99 But, without condemning your treatment of her, I wish you to reflect how much she must suffer from being changed into an animal, and I hope you will let that punishment be enough. **Who acts:** I, story, you, punishment, your · **What happens:** condemn, wish, reflect, suffer, change, hope · **To what, where:** treatment, you, much, punishment, story · **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 (I, story, you, punishment), 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:pg128:35:99 # text = But, without condemning your treatment of her, I wish you to reflect how much she must suffer from being changed into an animal, and I hope you will let that punishment be enough. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 without without SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 condemning condemn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 reflect reflect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 20 from from SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 33 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 36 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **condemn** | gerund | I *not said here* | your treatment of story | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme | | 2 | **wish** | present | I | | you | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | | 3 | **reflect** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **suffer** | must | story | much | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **change** | gerund · passive | story *not said here* | | | | | into a animal *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into animal=Result | | 6 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **let** | future | you | that punishment | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | infinitive | that punishment *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **treat** | | your | story | | | | | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/100/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/)