--- title: For a long time no plan occurred to the two plotters that seemed in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: For a long time no plan occurred to the two plotters that seemed in the least likely to meet with success, but at length the expected birth of an heir gave them the chance for which they had been hoping. Who acts: plan, two plotters, expected birth, plotters. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entert --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/79/) [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/) / 79 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 79 For a long time no plan occurred to the two plotters that seemed in the least likely to meet with success, but at length the expected birth of an heir gave them the chance for which they had been hoping. **Who acts:** plan, two plotters, expected birth, plotters · **What happens:** occur, seem, meet, expect, give, hope · **To what, where:** plotters, length 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 (plan, two plotters, expected birth, plotters), 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:pg128:40:79 # text = For a long time no plan occurred to the two plotters that seemed in the least likely to meet with success, but at length the expected birth of an heir gave them the chance for which they had been hoping. 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 occurred occur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 plotters plotter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 advmod _ _ 17 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 heir heir NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 aux _ _ 41 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **occur** | past | no plan | | | | time | to the two plotters | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | past | the two plotters | | | | | likely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the two plotters *not said here* | | | | | with success | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with success=Co-Agent | | 4 | **expect** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | past | the expected birth of a heir | plotters *= plotter* | | length | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme at length=Asset | | 6 | **hope** | past · perfect · progressive | plotters *= plotter* | | | | | for the chance | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for which=Theme | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/80/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/40/)