--- title: "Good dervish," answered the princess, "I feel in my heart that I sh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Good dervish," answered the princess, "I feel in my heart that I shall succeed, and it only remains for me to ask you the way I am to go." Who acts: Good dervish, heart, risk, way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good dervish, heart, risk, way), 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:pg128:42:77 # text = "Good dervish," answered the princess, "I feel in my heart that I shall succeed, and it only remains for me to ask you the way I am to go." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dervish dervish 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 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 remains remain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Good dervish | | the princess | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | | 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | Good dervish *= dervish* | the princess *not said here* | | my heart | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme in heart=Location | | 3 | **succeed** *in a quote* | shall | my heart | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **remain** *in a quote* | present | risk | | | | | for Good dervish *= dervish* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | risk *not said here* | the way | the princess *= princess* | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the way *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/78/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/)