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title: "What lovely coloured water!" he exclaimed; "where is the spring, an… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "What lovely coloured water!" he exclaimed; "where is the spring, and how do you make the fountain rise so high? Who acts: lovely coloured water, you, fountain. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 14

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"What lovely coloured water!" he exclaimed; "where is the spring, and how do you make the fountain rise so high?

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**Who acts:** lovely coloured water, you, fountain · **What happens:** water, exclaim, be, make, rise · **To what, where:** spring, fountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely coloured water, you, fountain), 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:pg128:44:14
# text = "What lovely coloured water!" he exclaimed; "where is the spring, and how do you make the fountain rise so high?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | lovely coloured water |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the spring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the fountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rise** *in a quote* | infinitive | the fountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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