--- title: "My son," replied the king, "you speak nobly, but you do not realise… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My son," replied the king, "you speak nobly, but you do not realise either the value of the horse, or the fact that if I reject the proposal of the Indian, he will only make the same to some other monarch, and I should be filled with despair at the thought that anyone but myself should own this Sev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/73/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/) / 73 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 73 "My son," replied the king, "you speak nobly, but you do not realise either the value of the horse, or the fact that if I reject the proposal of the Indian, he will only make the same to some other monarch, and I should be filled with despair at the thought that anyone but myself should own this Seventh Wonder of the World. **Who acts:** son, you, anyone · **What happens:** reply, speak, not realise, reject, make, fill · **To what, where:** king, value, proposal, same, son, thought · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, anyone), 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:pg128:37:73 # text = "My son," replied the king, "you speak nobly, but you do not realise either the value of the horse, or the fact that if I reject the proposal of the Indian, he will only make the same to some other monarch, and I should be filled with despair at the thought that anyone but myself should own this Seventh Wonder of the World. 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 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 nobly nobly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 realise realise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 20 either either CCONJ CC _ 22 cc:preconj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 reject reject VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 proposal proposal NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 only only ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 49 det _ _ 48 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 52 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 53 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 54 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 56 with with ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 58 at at ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 61 that that SCONJ IN _ 66 mark _ _ 62 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 66 nsubj _ _ 63 but but CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 62 conj _ _ 65 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ _ 66 own own VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 ccomp _ _ 67 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 69 nsubj _ _ 68 Seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 Wonder Wonder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 66 obj _ _ 70 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | My son | the king | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | nobly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **realise** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the value of the horse or the fact | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **reject** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | My son *= son* | the proposal of the Indian | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | future | son | the same | | | | to some other monarch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Product | | 6 | **fill** *in a quote* | should · passive | | My son *= son* | | the thought | | with despair | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with despair=Instrument | | 7 | **own** *in a quote* | should | anyone | Seventh Wonder of the World | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wonder=Theme | | 8 | **value** *in a quote* | | | the horse | | | | | nom value «cognition transitive»: 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/)