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title: "Holy father," answered the princess, "I come from far, and I should… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Holy father," answered the princess, "I come from far, and I should be in despair if I turned back without having attained my object. Who acts: Holy father. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 70

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"Holy father," answered the princess, "I come from far, and I should be in despair if I turned back without having attained my object.

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**Who acts:** Holy father · **What happens:** answer, come, be, turn back, attain · **To what, where:** princess, despair, object · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Holy father), 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:pg128:42:70
# text = "Holy father," answered the princess, "I come from far, and I should be in despair if I turned back without having attained my object.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux	_	_
28	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	ccomp	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Holy father |  | the princess |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Holy father *= father* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | should | Holy father *= father* |  |  | despair |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn back** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | Holy father *= father* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **attain** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect | Holy father *= father* *not said here* | my object |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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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