--- title: The Sultan commanded a horse to be given her, and conducted her to h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The Sultan commanded a horse to be given her, and conducted her to his own palace, where he led her to a beautiful apartment, and selected female slaves to wait on her, and eunuchs to be her guard. Who acts: Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/58/) [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/) / 58 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 58 The Sultan commanded a horse to be given her, and conducted her to his own palace, where he led her to a beautiful apartment, and selected female slaves to wait on her, and eunuchs to be her guard. **Who acts:** Sultan · **What happens:** command, give, conduct, lead, select, wait · **To what, where:** horse, Princess, own palace, beautiful apartment, female slaves, guard · **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 (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:pg128:39:58 # text = The Sultan commanded a horse to be given her, and conducted her to his own palace, where he led her to a beautiful apartment, and selected female slaves to wait on her, and eunuchs to be her guard. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 apartment apartment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 selected select VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 eunuchs eunuch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **command** | past | the Sultan | a horse | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 2 | **give** | to-infinitive · passive | the Sultan *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: she=Theme | | 3 | **conduct** | past | the Sultan *not said here* | Princess | | Sultan's own palace | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination | | 4 | **lead** | past | Sultan | Princess | | a beautiful apartment | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to apartment=Destination | | 5 | **select** | past | the Sultan *not said here* | female slaves | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | | 6 | **wait** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | | | | | on Princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location | | 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | Princess's guard | | | | | tree rules | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/39/)