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title: I am the daughter of an Indian king," she answered, "and whilst ridi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I am the daughter of an Indian king," she answered, "and whilst riding in the country I fell asleep and tumbled off. Who acts: I, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 49

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I am the daughter of an Indian king," she answered, "and whilst riding in the country I fell asleep and tumbled off.

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**Who acts:** I, horse · **What happens:** be, answer, fall, tumble off · **To what, where:** daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg128:4:49
# text = I am the daughter of an Indian king," she answered, "and whilst riding in the country I fell asleep and tumbled off.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the daughter |  |  |  | of a Indian king | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | I |  |  |  |  | whilst riding in the country; asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **tumble off** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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.

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**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.

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