--- title: "My son, not only do I gladly consent to your marriage with the Prin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My son, not only do I gladly consent to your marriage with the Princess of Bengal, but I will hasten to pay my respects to her, and to thank her in my own person for the benefits she has conferred on you. Who acts: Prince, benefits, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/20/) [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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/) / 20 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 20 "My son, not only do I gladly consent to your marriage with the Princess of Bengal, but I will hasten to pay my respects to her, and to thank her in my own person for the benefits she has conferred on you. **Who acts:** Prince, benefits, your · **What happens:** not consent, hasten, pay, thank, confer, marry · **To what, where:** son, respects, Bengal 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, benefits, 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:pg128:39:20 # text = "My son, not only do I gladly consent to your marriage with the Princess of Bengal, but I will hasten to pay my respects to her, and to thank her in my own person for the benefits she has conferred on you. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 consent consent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 hasten hasten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 respects respects NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 benefits benefit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 conferred confer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **consent** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Prince | My son *not said here* | | | | to your marriage with the Princess of Bengal; gladly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hasten** *in a quote* | future | Prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | my respects | Bengal | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | Bengal | | | in my own person; for the benefits | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for benefit=Attribute | | 5 | **confer** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | the benefits *not said here* | Bengal | | | | on you | tree rules | | 6 | **marry** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | with the Princess of Bengal | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/21/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/)