--- title: Not a morning had passed since Prince Perviz had ridden away without… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Not a morning had passed since Prince Perviz had ridden away without Princess Parizade telling her beads, and at night she even hung them round her neck, so that if she woke she could assure herself at once of her brother's safety. Who acts: Perviz, Princess. 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/pg128/42/60/) [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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/) / 60 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 60 Not a morning had passed since Prince Perviz had ridden away without Princess Parizade telling her beads, and at night she even hung them round her neck, so that if she woke she could assure herself at once of her brother's safety. **Who acts:** Perviz, Princess · **What happens:** pass, ride away, tell, hang, wake, assure · **To what, where:** morning, beads, princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Princess), 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:pg128:42:60 # text = Not a morning had passed since Prince Perviz had ridden away without Princess Parizade telling her beads, and at night she even hung them round her neck, so that if she woke she could assure herself at once of her brother's safety. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 since since SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:desc _ _ 8 Perviz Perviz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 ridden ride VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 Parizade Parizade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 beads bead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 round round ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 34 mark _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 assure assure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 obj _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive | | a morning | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | | 2 | **ride away** | past · perfect | Perviz Prince | | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Princess | princess's beads | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bead=Recipient | | 4 | **hang** | past | princess | beads *= bead* | | | night | round princess's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **wake** | past | princess | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **assure** | could | princess | princess | | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/)