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title: But what dangers can there be in the adventure which courage and a g… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But what dangers can there be in the adventure which courage and a good sword cannot meet?" Who acts: dangers. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 14

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But what dangers can there be in the adventure which courage and a good sword cannot meet?"

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**Who acts:** dangers · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** adventure

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dangers), 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:pg128:42:14
# text = But what dangers can there be in the adventure which courage and a good sword cannot meet?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
3	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | can | dangers |  |  | the adventure; there |  | meet *property* | tree rules |

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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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