--- title: Luckily, he did not lose his head, and set about examining the horse… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Luckily, he did not lose his head, and set about examining the horse's neck with great care, till at last, to his intense joy, he discovered a tiny little peg, much smaller than the other, close to the right ear. Who acts: Firouz. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/88/) [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/) / 88 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 88 Luckily, he did not lose his head, and set about examining the horse's neck with great care, till at last, to his intense joy, he discovered a tiny little peg, much smaller than the other, close to the right ear. **Who acts:** Firouz · **What happens:** not lose, set, examine, discover, joy · **To what, where:** head, neck, tiny little peg 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 (Firouz), 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:pg128:37:88 # text = Luckily, he did not lose his head, and set about examining the horse's neck with great care, till at last, to his intense joy, he discovered a tiny little peg, much smaller than the other, close to the right ear. 1 Luckily luckily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 about about SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 examining examine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 till till ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 intense intense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 peg peg NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 much much ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 conj _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advcl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **lose** | past · do-support | Firouz | Firouz's head | | | | luckily *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | | 2 | **set** | infinitive | Firouz *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **examine** | gerund | Firouz *not said here* | the horse's neck | | | | with great care | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | | 4 | **discover** | past | Firouz | a tiny little peg | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peg=Topic | | 5 | **joy** | | Firouz | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/89/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/)