--- title: "Where she lives I do not know," answered the unhappy prince, "but s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: "Where she lives I do not know," answered the unhappy prince, "but she goes every day at sunrise to see if the slave can yet speak to her, after she has beaten me." Who acts: woman, unhappy prince, slave. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, unhappy prince, slave), 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:pg128:5:102 # text = "Where she lives I do not know," answered the unhappy prince, "but she goes every day at sunrise to see if the slave can yet speak to her, after she has beaten me." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 sunrise sunrise NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 yet yet ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 after after SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 parataxis _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | woman | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the unhappy prince *= prince* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the unhappy prince | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | woman | | | | day; sunrise | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | the slave | | woman | | yet | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | | 7 | **beat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | woman | the unhappy prince *= prince* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=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 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/103/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/)