--- title: He softly left his hiding-place, and returned to the Sultan, to whom… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: He softly left his hiding-place, and returned to the Sultan, to whom he reported that he was sure from certain signs that the princess's malady was not incurable, but that he must see her and speak with her alone. Who acts: love, malady. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/6/) [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/) / 6 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 6 He softly left his hiding-place, and returned to the Sultan, to whom he reported that he was sure from certain signs that the princess's malady was not incurable, but that he must see her and speak with her alone. **Who acts:** love, malady · **What happens:** leave, return, report, be, not be, see · **To what, where:** hiding place, Sultan, certain signs, princess · **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 (love, malady), 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:pg128:40:6 # text = He softly left his hiding-place, and returned to the Sultan, to whom he reported that he was sure from certain signs that the princess's malady was not incurable, but that he must see her and speak with her alone. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 softly softly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hiding hiding NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 malady malady NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 incurable incurable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ _ 45 alone alone ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | love | love's hiding place | | | | softly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 2 | **return** | past | love *not said here* | | | the Sultan | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to sultan=Initial\_Location to whom=Destination | | 3 | **report** | past | love | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | love | | | certain signs | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | the princess's malady | certain signs *not said here* | | | | incurable *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | must | love | princess | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | love *not said here* | | | | | with princess; alone *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/)