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title: Think of being able to eat as much as one wanted, of that delicious… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of being able to eat as much as one wanted, of that delicious bread that is baked for his Highness alone! Who acts: you, one. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 46

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Think of being able to eat as much as one wanted, of that delicious bread that is baked for his Highness alone!

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**Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** think, be, eat, want, bake · **To what, where:** much, delicious bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, one), 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:pg128:40:46
# text = Think of being able to eat as much as one wanted, of that delicious bread that is baked for his Highness alone!
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | much |  |  |  | of that delicious bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 4 | **want** | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **bake** | present · passive |  | that delicious bread |  |  |  | for Sultan's Highness; alone *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for highness=Beneficiary |

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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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