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title: "Prince," replied the Princess of Bengal, "I have no idea what a Per… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Prince," replied the Princess of Bengal, "I have no idea what a Persian palace is like, so I am unable to make comparisons. Who acts: Prince. 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 66

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"Prince," replied the Princess of Bengal, "I have no idea what a Persian palace is like, so I am unable to make comparisons.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** reply, have, be, make · **To what, where:** Princess, idea, comparisons · **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), 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:pg128:38:66
# text = "Prince," replied the Princess of Bengal, "I have no idea what a Persian palace is like, so I am unable to make comparisons.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	appos	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	comparisons	comparison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | the Princess of Bengal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Prince | no idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Prince |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | comparisons |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comparison=Product |

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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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