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title: As may be imagined, Prince Perviz and his sister were all this time… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As may be imagined, Prince Perviz and his sister were all this time in the greatest anxiety, and consulted the magic knife, not once but many times a day. Who acts: Perviz. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 39

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As may be imagined, Prince Perviz and his sister were all this time in the greatest anxiety, and consulted the magic knife, not once but many times a day.

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**Who acts:** Perviz · **What happens:** imagine, be, consult · **To what, where:** time, greatest anxiety, magic knife

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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 (Perviz), 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:pg128:42:39
# text = As may be imagined, Prince Perviz and his sister were all this time in the greatest anxiety, and consulted the magic knife, not once but many times a day.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Perviz	Perviz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	obl	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF» |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Perviz  Prince and Prince's sister | all time |  | the greatest anxiety |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consult** | past |  | the magic knife |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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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