--- title: "My dear mistress," replied the bird, "your cooks are very good and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "My dear mistress," replied the bird, "your cooks are very good and you can safely leave all to them, except that you must be careful to have a dish of cucumbers, stuffed with pearl sauce, served with the first course." Who acts: dear mistress, cooks, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertain --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/76/) [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/) / 76 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 76 "My dear mistress," replied the bird, "your cooks are very good and you can safely leave all to them, except that you must be careful to have a dish of cucumbers, stuffed with pearl sauce, served with the first course." **Who acts:** dear mistress, cooks, you · **What happens:** reply, be, leave, have, stuff, serve · **To what, where:** bird, all, cooks, dish, pearl sauce · **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 (dear mistress, cooks, you), 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:pg128:43:76 # text = "My dear mistress," replied the bird, "your cooks are very good and you can safely leave all to them, except that you must be careful to have a dish of cucumbers, stuffed with pearl sauce, served with the first course." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 replied reply 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 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 safely safely ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 except except ADP IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 31 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 cucumbers cucumber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 pearl pearl NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 sauce sauce NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 48 amod _ _ 48 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | My dear mistress | the bird | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your cooks | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | can | you | all | cooks *= cook* | | | safely *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Theme to they=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a dish of cucumbers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | | 6 | **stuff** *in a quote* | participle | | a dish of cucumbers *not said here* | | | | with pearl sauce | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sauce=Theme | | 7 | **serve** *in a quote* | participle | | pearl sauce *not said here* | | | | with the first course | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with course=Theme | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/)