--- title: I asked the officers in command the reason of this strange behaviour… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I asked the officers in command the reason of this strange behaviour, and was horrified to learn that the army had mutinied and put to death the king, my father, and had placed the grand-vizir on the throne. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/86/) [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/) / 86 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 86 I asked the officers in command the reason of this strange behaviour, and was horrified to learn that the army had mutinied and put to death the king, my father, and had placed the grand-vizir on the throne. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ask, horrify, learn, mutiny, put, place · **To what, where:** officers, command, army, king, grand vizir, throne · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I), 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:pg128:7:86 # text = I asked the officers in command the reason of this strange behaviour, and was horrified to learn that the army had mutinied and put to death the king, my father, and had placed the grand-vizir on the throne. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 11 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 horrified horrify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 mutinied mutiny VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 ccomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 vizir vizir NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I | the officers | | command | | the reason of this strange behaviour *obl:unmarked* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient | | 2 | **horrify** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **mutiny** | past · perfect · passive | | the army | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **put** | participle | | | the king | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Goal | | 6 | **place** | past · perfect | I *not said here* | the grand vizir | | the throne | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme on throne=Destination | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/87/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/7/)