--- title: "Madame," he said, "by taking advantage of your proposal to visit th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Madame," he said, "by taking advantage of your proposal to visit the palace of the King of Bengal, I should satisfy not merely my curiosity, but also the sentiments of respect with which I regard him. Who acts: prince, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/70/) [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/) / 70 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 70 "Madame," he said, "by taking advantage of your proposal to visit the palace of the King of Bengal, I should satisfy not merely my curiosity, but also the sentiments of respect with which I regard him. **Who acts:** prince, your · **What happens:** say, take, visit, not satisfy, regard, propose · **To what, where:** advantage, palace, curiosity, prince · **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 (prince, your), 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:pg128:38:70 # text = "Madame," he said, "by taking advantage of your proposal to visit the palace of the King of Bengal, I should satisfy not merely my curiosity, but also the sentiments of respect with which I regard him. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Madame madame NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 ccomp _ _ 11 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 proposal proposal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 satisfy satisfy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 29 merely merely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 also also ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sentiments sentiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 regard regard VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | | advantage of your proposal | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | | 3 | **visit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the palace of the King of Bengal | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Co-Agent | | 4 | **not** **satisfy** *in a quote* | should | prince | my curiosity | | | | the sentiments of respect *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer | | 5 | **regard** *in a quote* | present | prince | prince | | | | with respect | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **propose** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom proposal «communication 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/71/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)