--- title: As to your heart," continued she in tones of encouragement, "I am qu… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: As to your heart," continued she in tones of encouragement, "I am quite sure that must have been disposed of long ago, to some princess who is well worthy of it, and I could not think of being the cause of your unfaithfulness to her." Who acts: court, I, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights E --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/60/) [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/) / 60 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 60 As to your heart," continued she in tones of encouragement, "I am quite sure that must have been disposed of long ago, to some princess who is well worthy of it, and I could not think of being the cause of your unfaithfulness to her." **Who acts:** court, I, princess · **What happens:** continue, be, dispose, not think, intonate · **To what, where:** tones, encouragement · **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 (court, I, princess), 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:pg128:38:60 # text = As to your heart," continued she in tones of encouragement, "I am quite sure that must have been disposed of long ago, to some princess who is well worthy of it, and I could not think of being the cause of your unfaithfulness to her." 1 As as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 encouragement encouragement NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 quite quite ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 disposed dispose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 ago ago ADV RB _ 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 cop _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 unfaithfulness unfaithfulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | court | | | tones of encouragement | | as your heart | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **dispose** | must · perfect · passive | I *not said here* | | | | | to some princess | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: to princess=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | some princess | | | | | of encouragement; well, worthy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | I | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of the cause; of your unfaithfulness to court | tree rules | | 7 | **intonate** *in a quote* | | | encouragement | | | | | nom tone «communication 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)