--- title: When the princess's messenger entered his room, Prince Firouz Schah… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When the princess's messenger entered his room, Prince Firouz Schah was in the act of leaving it, to inquire if he might be allowed to pay his homage to her mistress: but on hearing the princess's wishes, he at once gave way. " Who acts: messenger, Firouz, act, room. 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" **Who acts:** messenger, Firouz, act, room, princess · **What happens:** enter, be, leave, inquire, allow, pay · **To what, where:** room, act, Firouz, homage, wishes, way This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, Firouz, act, room), 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:pg128:38:32 # text = When the princess's messenger entered his room, Prince Firouz Schah was in the act of leaving it, to inquire if he might be allowed to pay his homage to her mistress: but on hearing the princess's wishes, he at once gave way. " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:desc _ _ 11 Firouz Firouz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 12 Schah Schah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 leaving leave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 homage homage NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 47 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 37 on on SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 at at SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 47 advmod _ _ 47 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 48 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the princess's messenger | messenger's room | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | Firouz Prince | | | the act | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | gerund | the act *not said here* | room | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | room *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **allow** *a condition, not said to happen* | might · passive | | Firouz | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Firouz *not said here* | prince's homage | | | | to princess's mistress | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Asset | | 7 | **hear** | gerund | Firouz *not said here* | the princess's wishes | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wish=Stimulus | | 8 | **give** | past | Firouz | way | | | | once *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 9 | **wish** | | the princess | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)