--- title: The prince at once seized the opening thus given him, and told the w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The prince at once seized the opening thus given him, and told the whole story of his treatment by the Princess of Bengal, not even concealing the fact that she had fallen in love with him. " Who acts: prince, opening, Bengal. 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" **Who acts:** prince, opening, Bengal · **What happens:** seize, give, tell, not conceal, fall, treat · **To what, where:** opening, Prince, whole story, fact, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (prince, opening, Bengal), 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:pg128:39:16 # text = The prince at once seized the opening thus given him, and told the whole story of his treatment by the Princess of Bengal, not even concealing the fact that she had fallen in love with him. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 obl _ _ 5 seized seize 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 opening opening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 thus thus ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 concealing conceal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | past | the prince | the opening | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Theme | | 2 | **give** | participle | the opening *not said here* | Prince | | | | thus *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the prince *not said here* | the whole story of Prince's treatment | | | | by the Princess of Bengal | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **conceal** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | the fact | | | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | | 5 | **fall** | past · perfect | Bengal | | | love | | with Prince | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 6 | **treat** | | Prince | | | | | | nom treatment «act transitive»: 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/17/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/)