--- title: "What beautiful olives!" he said, "I should like to taste one," and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "What beautiful olives!" he said, "I should like to taste one," and pretending to put one in his mouth, he added, "they are really excellent! Who acts: beautiful olives, Cadi, olives. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful olives, Cadi, olives), 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:pg128:36:114 # text = "What beautiful olives!" he said, "I should like to taste one," and pretending to put one in his mouth, he added, "they are really excellent! 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 really really ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **olive** *in a quote* | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | beautiful olives | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | should | beautiful olives *= olive* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **taste** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | beautiful olives *= olive* *not said here* | one | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme one=Attribute | | 5 | **pretend** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **put** | to-infinitive | | one | | Cadi's mouth | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in mouth=Destination | | 7 | **add** *speech: express* | past | Cadi | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | olives *= olive* | | | | | excellent *property* | tree rules | 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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/115/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/)