--- title: If necessary, she added, she had resolved to die sooner than permit… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: If necessary, she added, she had resolved to die sooner than permit herself to be forced into such a union, and break faith with a prince whom she loved. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/14/) [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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/) / 14 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 14 If necessary, she added, she had resolved to die sooner than permit herself to be forced into such a union, and break faith with a prince whom she loved. **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** add, resolve, die, permit, force, break · **To what, where:** princess, union, faith, prince This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. 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:pg128:40:14 # text = If necessary, she added, she had resolved to die sooner than permit herself to be forced into such a union, and break faith with a prince whom she loved. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 resolved resolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 13 than than SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 permit permit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 22 det:predet _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 union union NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | princess | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **resolve** | past · perfect | princess | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **permit** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | princess | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | | 5 | **force** | to-infinitive · passive | princess *not said here* | | | such union | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **break** | infinitive | princess *not said here* | faith | | | | with a prince | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with prince=Instrument | | 7 | **love** | past | princess | a prince | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/15/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/)