--- title: But as she had eaten scarcely anything since she had left Bengal, sh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: But as she had eaten scarcely anything since she had left Bengal, she felt she was too weak to venture far, and was obliged to abandon her design. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/48/) [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/) / 48 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 48 But as she had eaten scarcely anything since she had left Bengal, she felt she was too weak to venture far, and was obliged to abandon her design. **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** eat, leave, feel, be, venture, oblige · **To what, where:** anything, Bengal, design 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 (Princess), 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:pg128:39:48 # text = But as she had eaten scarcely anything since she had left Bengal, she felt she was too weak to venture far, and was obliged to abandon her design. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 6 scarcely scarcely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 8 since since SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 venture venture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 22 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 abandon abandon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 design design NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | Princess | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | Princess | Bengal | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bengal=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | past | Princess | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | past | Princess | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **venture** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **oblige** | past · passive | Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result | | 7 | **abandon** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Princess's design | | | | | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme design=Source | | 8 | **design** | | Princess | | | | | | nom design «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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/49/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/)