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title: When he had calmed down a little, he begged the prince to relate his… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had calmed down a little, he begged the prince to relate his adventures. Who acts: father. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 15

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When he had calmed down a little, he begged the prince to relate his adventures.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** calm down, beg, relate, adventure · **To what, where:** little, prince, adventures

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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 (father), 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:pg128:39:15
# text = When he had calmed down a little, he begged the prince to relate his adventures.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	calmed	calm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **calm down** | past · perfect | father | a little |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | father |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 3 | **relate** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | father's adventures |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme |
| 4 | **adventure** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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