--- title: She bade me follow her to various shops, and when my basket was quit… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: She bade me follow her to various shops, and when my basket was quite full we returned to this house, when you had the goodness to permit me to remain, for which I shall be eternally grateful. Who acts: sister, basket, we, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/43/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/) / 43 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 43 She bade me follow her to various shops, and when my basket was quite full we returned to this house, when you had the goodness to permit me to remain, for which I shall be eternally grateful. **Who acts:** sister, basket, we, you, goodness, I · **What happens:** bade, follow, be, return, have, permit · **To what, where:** me, sister, various shops, goodness This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, basket, we, 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:pg128:7:43 # text = She bade me follow her to various shops, and when my basket was quite full we returned to this house, when you had the goodness to permit me to remain, for which I shall be eternally grateful. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 quite quite ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 permit permit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 eternally eternally ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 grateful grateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bade** | past | sister | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | infinitive | sister *not said here* | sister | | various shops | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to shop=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | past | my basket | | | | | full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **return** | past | we | | | | | to this house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | | 5 | **have** | past | you | the goodness | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **permit** | to-infinitive | the goodness *not said here* | me | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the goodness *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | shall | I | | | | | eternally, grateful *property* | tree rules | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/44/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/)