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title: Now to cure the princess the dervish must pull out seven of these wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now to cure the princess the dervish must pull out seven of these white hairs, burn three, and with their smoke perfume the head of the princess. Who acts: dervish, hairs. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 70

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Now to cure the princess the dervish must pull out seven of these white hairs, burn three, and with their smoke perfume the head of the princess.

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**Who acts:** dervish, hairs · **What happens:** cure, pull out, burn, perfume, smoke · **To what, where:** princess, seven, three, head

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, hairs), 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:pg128:9:70
# text = Now to cure the princess the dervish must pull out seven of these white hairs, burn three, and with their smoke perfume the head of the princess.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	cure	cure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dervish	dervish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	perfume	perfume	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | to-infinitive |  | the princess |  |  | now |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source |
| 2 | **pull out** | must | the dervish | seven of this white hairs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | present |  | three |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
| 4 | **perfume** | present |  | the head of the princess |  |  |  | with hairs's smoke | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with smoke=Theme |
| 5 | **smoke** |  | hairs *= hair* |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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