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title: "Princess," he added, "it may be that in your heart you class me wit… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Princess," he added, "it may be that in your heart you class me with those false lovers whose devotion cannot stand the test of absence. Who acts: he, it, devotion. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 1

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"Princess," he added, "it may be that in your heart you class me with those false lovers whose devotion cannot stand the test of absence.

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**Who acts:** he, it, devotion · **What happens:** add, be, not stand, test · **To what, where:** Princess, that, heart, test, absence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, it, devotion), 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:pg128:39:1
# text = "Princess," he added, "it may be that in your heart you class me with those false lovers whose devotion cannot stand the test of absence.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | he | Princess |  |  |  | with that false lovers | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with lover=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | may | it | that |  | your heart and class |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **stand** *in a quote* | can | devotion | the test of absence |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus |
| 4 | **test** *in a quote* |  |  | absence |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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