--- title: They told him the whole story, and how the Princess of Bengal was ev… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: They told him the whole story, and how the Princess of Bengal was even then awaiting in the country palace the consent of the Sultan, which at once put into the Indian's head a plan of revenge for the treatment he had experienced. Who acts: commands, Princess, Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nigh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/28/) [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/) / 28 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 28 They told him the whole story, and how the Princess of Bengal was even then awaiting in the country palace the consent of the Sultan, which at once put into the Indian's head a plan of revenge for the treatment he had experienced. **Who acts:** commands, Princess, Sultan · **What happens:** tell, await, put, experience, consent, plan · **To what, where:** whole story, Sultan, country palace, consent, Indian head, treatment · **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 (commands, Princess, Sultan), 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:pg128:39:28 # text = They told him the whole story, and how the Princess of Bengal was even then awaiting in the country palace the consent of the Sultan, which at once put into the Indian's head a plan of revenge for the treatment he had experienced. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 awaiting await VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 31 obl _ _ 31 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 experienced experience VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | commands *= command* | the whole story | Sultan | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | | 2 | **await** | past · progressive | the Princess of Bengal | | | the country palace | then | | tree rules | | 3 | **put** | participle · passive | | the consent of the Sultan | | the Indian head | | for the treatment | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset plan=Goal | | 4 | **experience** | past · perfect | Sultan | the treatment *not said here* | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus | | 5 | **consent** | | | the Sultan | | | | | nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **plan** | | | revenge | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/29/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/)