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title: "Alas, prince," she said, with a deeper sigh than before, "you have… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Alas, prince," she said, with a deeper sigh than before, "you have guessed rightly in supposing me an unwilling prisoner in this gorgeous place. Who acts: madam, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 75

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"Alas, prince," she said, with a deeper sigh than before, "you have guessed rightly in supposing me an unwilling prisoner in this gorgeous place.

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**Who acts:** madam, you · **What happens:** say, guess, suppose, unwill · **To what, where:** madam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, you), 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:pg128:8:75
# text = "Alas, prince," she said, with a deeper sigh than before, "you have guessed rightly in supposing me an unwilling prisoner in this gorgeous place.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
21	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
30	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | madam |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **guess** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | rightly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suppose** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | madam |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme prisoner=Attribute |
| 4 | **unwill** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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