--- title: "The princes must on no account refuse the Sultan's proposal," said… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "The princes must on no account refuse the Sultan's proposal," said he, "and they must even invite him to come and see your house." Who acts: princes, Prince, offers, Sultan. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/61/) [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/) / 61 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 61 "The princes must on no account refuse the Sultan's proposal," said he, "and they must even invite him to come and see your house." **Who acts:** princes, Prince, offers, Sultan · **What happens:** refuse, say, invite, come, see, propose · **To what, where:** proposal, Prince, house · **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 (princes, Prince, offers, Sultan), 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:pg128:43:61 # text = "The princes must on no account refuse the Sultan's proposal," said he, "and they must even invite him to come and see your house." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 refuse refuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 proposal proposal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 invite invite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** *in a quote* | present | the princes on no account | the Sultan's proposal | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **invite** *in a quote* | must | offers *= offer* | Prince | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | your house | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | | 6 | **propose** *in a quote* | | the Sultan | | | | | | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/62/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)