--- title: "Ask her advice, then," replied the Sultan, "and to-morrow come and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Ask her advice, then," replied the Sultan, "and to-morrow come and hunt with me, and give me your answer." Who acts: Sultan, your. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/45/) [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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/) / 45 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 45 "Ask her advice, then," replied the Sultan, "and to-morrow come and hunt with me, and give me your answer." **Who acts:** Sultan, your · **What happens:** ask, reply, come, hunt, give, answer · **To what, where:** advice, morrow, answer, Sultan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, your), 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:pg128:43:45 # text = "Ask her advice, then," replied the Sultan, "and to-morrow come and hunt with me, and give me your answer." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 18 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | | sister's advice | | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Sultan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the Sultan *not said here* | | | morrow | | with the Sultan *= sultan* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **hunt** *in a quote* | present | the Sultan *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | your answer | the Sultan *= sultan* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient answer=Theme | | 6 | **answer** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)