---
title: The princess had a passion for music, and could sing and play upon a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess had a passion for music, and could sing and play upon all sorts of instruments she could also ride and drive as well as her brothers, shoot with a bow and arrow, and throw a javelin with the same skill as they, and sometimes even better. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Ni
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/31/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/) / 31

# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 31

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The princess had a passion for music, and could sing and play upon all sorts of instruments she could also ride and drive as well as her brothers, shoot with a bow and arrow, and throw a javelin with the same skill as they, and sometimes even better.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** have, sing, play, ride, drive, throw · **To what, where:** passion, instruments, javelin

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg128:41:31
# text = The princess had a passion for music, and could sing and play upon all sorts of instruments she could also ride and drive as well as her brothers, shoot with a bow and arrow, and throw a javelin with the same skill as they, and sometimes even better.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	shoot	shoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	javelin	javelin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	52	advmod	_	_
51	even	even	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the princess | a passion |  |  |  | for music | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon all sorts of instruments | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ride** | could | princess | instruments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme |
| 5 | **drive** | infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as princess's brothers and shoot with a bow and arrow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **throw** | infinitive |  | a javelin |  |  |  | with the same skill; as studies *= study* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent javelin=Theme |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | instruments |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/30/)
- next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/32/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/41/)