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title: When the Princess Parizade held in her hands the three wonders promi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Princess Parizade held in her hands the three wonders promised her by the old woman, she said to the bird: "All that is not enough. Who acts: Princess Parizade, three wonders, Parizade, All. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42, with its depende
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 96

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When the Princess Parizade held in her hands the three wonders promised her by the old woman, she said to the bird: "All that is not enough.

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**Who acts:** Princess Parizade, three wonders, Parizade, All · **What happens:** hold, promise, say, not be · **To what, where:** hands, Parizade, bird · **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 Parizade, three wonders, Parizade, All), 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:pg128:42:96
# text = When the Princess Parizade held in her hands the three wonders promised her by the old woman, she said to the bird: "All that is not enough.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Parizade	Parizade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the Princess Parizade |  |  | Parizade's hands |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the three wonders |  | Parizade |  |  | by the old woman | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Parizade |  | the bird |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | All |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

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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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