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description: And in order to make the spectacle as impressive as possible, I would suggest that she should be richly dressed and covered with the noblest jewels of the crown." Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 28

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And in order to make the spectacle as impressive as possible, I would suggest that she should be richly dressed and covered with the noblest jewels of the crown."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** make, suggest, dress, cover · **To what, where:** spectacle, princess

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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 (I), 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:pg128:40:28
# text = And in order to make the spectacle as impressive as possible, I would suggest that she should be richly dressed and covered with the noblest jewels of the crown."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	impressive	impressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the spectacle |  |  |  | impressive *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spectacle=Product |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | would | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dress** | should · passive |  | princess |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the noblest jewels of the crown | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme |

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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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