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title: "But, bird," objected the princess, "you know how dearly we love eac… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "But, bird," objected the princess, "you know how dearly we love each other; will not all this spoil our friendship?" Who acts: bird, you, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 62

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"But, bird," objected the princess, "you know how dearly we love each other; will not all this spoil our friendship?"

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**Who acts:** bird, you, we · **What happens:** object, know, love, not all · **To what, where:** princess, each, spoil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bird, you, we), 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:pg128:43:62
# text = "But, bird," objected the princess, "you know how dearly we love each other; will not all this spoil our friendship?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	objected	object	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	17	obj	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **object** *speech: other* | past | bird | the princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | we | each |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **all** *in a quote* | future |  | this spoil |  |  |  |  | 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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