--- title: "Sire," answered the princess, "do you see that cage hanging in one… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Sire," answered the princess, "do you see that cage hanging in one of the windows of the saloon? that is the Talking Bird, whose voice you can hear above them all, even above that of the nightingale. Who acts: Sire, princess, cage, that. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/38/) [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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/) / 38 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 38 "Sire," answered the princess, "do you see that cage hanging in one of the windows of the saloon? that is the Talking Bird, whose voice you can hear above them all, even above that of the nightingale. **Who acts:** Sire, princess, cage, that, voice · **What happens:** answer, see, hang, be, hear · **To what, where:** princess, cage, Talking Bird, windows, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sire, princess, cage, that), 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:pg128:44:38 # text = "Sire," answered the princess, "do you see that cage hanging in one of the windows of the saloon? that is the Talking Bird, whose voice you can hear above them all, even above that of the nightingale. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 saloon saloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Talking Talking PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 36 above above ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 even even ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 above above ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | Sire | | the princess | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the princess *= princess* | that cage | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus | | 3 | **hang** *in a quote* | gerund | that cage *not said here* | | | | | in one of the windows of the saloon | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the Talking Bird | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | can | voice | windows *= window* | | that | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/39/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/)