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title: Take this knife," he continued, handing her one that hung sheathed f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Take this knife," he continued, handing her one that hung sheathed from his belt, "and every now and then draw it out and look at it. Who acts: you, prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 84

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Take this knife," he continued, handing her one that hung sheathed from his belt, "and every now and then draw it out and look at it.

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**Who acts:** you, prince · **What happens:** take, continue, hand, sheath, draw out, look · **To what, where:** knife, road, belt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, prince), 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:pg128:41:84
# text = Take this knife," he continued, handing her one that hung sheathed from his belt, "and every now and then draw it out and look at it.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	sheathed	sheath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | this knife |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hand** *in a quote* | gerund | prince *not said here* | road |  |  |  | one *obl* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **sheath** *in a quote* | past · passive |  |  |  | prince's belt |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **draw out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | knife |  |  | then |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at knife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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