--- title: "My wife," he said, as he entered the room, "you were quite right; t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My wife," he said, as he entered the room, "you were quite right; the olives are rotten, and I have recorked the vase so well that Ali Cogia will never know it has been touched." Who acts: few, you, olives, Ali Cogia. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/40/) [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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/) / 40 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 40 "My wife," he said, as he entered the room, "you were quite right; the olives are rotten, and I have recorked the vase so well that Ali Cogia will never know it has been touched." **Who acts:** few, you, olives, Ali Cogia · **What happens:** say, enter, be, recork, not know, touch · **To what, where:** room, vase · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, you, olives, Ali Cogia), 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:pg128:36:40 # text = "My wife," he said, as he entered the room, "you were quite right; the olives are rotten, and I have recorked the vase so well that Ali Cogia will never know it has been touched." 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 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 recorked recork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 vase vase NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Cogia Cogia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | few | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **enter** | past | few | the room | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the olives | | | | | rotten *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **recork** *in a quote* | present · perfect | few | the vase | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | future | Ali Cogia | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **touch** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | vase | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/36/)