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title: But when he came to the enchanted horse, the princess declared that… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he came to the enchanted horse, the princess declared that she could never have imagined anything half so surprising. " Who acts: prince, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 39

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But when he came to the enchanted horse, the princess declared that she could never have imagined anything half so surprising. "

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**Who acts:** prince, princess · **What happens:** come, enchant, declare, not imagine · **To what, where:** anything half · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (prince, princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg128:38:39
# text = But when he came to the enchanted horse, the princess declared that she could never have imagined anything half so surprising. "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
19	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	compound	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | to the enchanted horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **imagine** | could · perfect | princess | anything half |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot half=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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