--- title: Well then," continued the prince, "you can easily understand how the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Well then," continued the prince, "you can easily understand how the King my father, who has a passion for all curious things, was seized with a violent desire to possess this horse, and asked the Indian what sum he would take for it. Who acts: you, King, Indian sum, prince. A sentence of «The Arabi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/40/) [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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/) / 40 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 40 Well then," continued the prince, "you can easily understand how the King my father, who has a passion for all curious things, was seized with a violent desire to possess this horse, and asked the Indian what sum he would take for it. **Who acts:** you, King, Indian sum, prince · **What happens:** continue, understand, have, seize, possess, ask · **To what, where:** prince, passion, horse, Indian sum · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, King, Indian sum, prince), 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:pg128:38:40 # text = Well then," continued the prince, "you can easily understand how the King my father, who has a passion for all curious things, was seized with a violent desire to possess this horse, and asked the Indian what sum he would take for it. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 easily easily ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 26 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 45 det _ _ 45 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl:relcl _ _ 49 for for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | | the prince | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **understand** | can | you | | | | | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | present | the King | a passion | | | | for all curious things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient | | 4 | **seize** | past · passive | | | | | | with a violent desire | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **possess** | to-infinitive | | this horse | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Indian sum | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **take** | would | prince | the Indian sum *not said here* | | | | for horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sum=Theme for it=Beneficiary | 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/pg128/38/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)