--- title: "Sire," replied the physician, "your Highness's tale has supplied me… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Sire," replied the physician, "your Highness's tale has supplied me with the clue I needed to complete the recovery of the princess. Who acts: Sire, clue, Highness, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/24/) [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/) / 24 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 24 "Sire," replied the physician, "your Highness's tale has supplied me with the clue I needed to complete the recovery of the princess. **Who acts:** Sire, clue, Highness, princess · **What happens:** reply, supply, need, complete, tell, recover · **To what, where:** physician, tale, clue, recovery · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sire, clue, Highness, 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:pg128:40:24 # text = "Sire," replied the physician, "your Highness's tale has supplied me with the clue I needed to complete the recovery of the princess. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 physician physician NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 Highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 supplied supply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 complete complete VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 recovery recovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Sire | the physician | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent physician=Topic | | 2 | **supply** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | your Highness's tale | | | | with the clue | tree rules | | 3 | **need** *in a quote* | past | Sire | the clue *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **complete** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the clue *not said here* | the recovery of the princess | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recovery=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *in a quote* | | your Highness | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **recover** *in a quote* | | the princess | | | | | | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/)