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title: She then returned to the cage, and said: "Bird, there is still somet… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She then returned to the cage, and said: "Bird, there is still something else, where shall I find the Singing Tree?" Who acts: princess, Bird. 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 91

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She then returned to the cage, and said: "Bird, there is still something else, where shall I find the Singing Tree?"

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**Who acts:** princess, Bird · **What happens:** return, say, be, find · **To what, where:** something, Singing Tree · **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 (princess, Bird), 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:pg128:42:91
# text = She then returned to the cage, and said: "Bird, there is still something else, where shall I find the Singing Tree?"
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	ccomp	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | princess |  |  |  | then | to the cage *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cage=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Bird | something |  |  |  | else *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | shall | princess | the Singing Tree |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |

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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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