--- title: "Oh!" said Prince Majnun, "I see you are Laili come back to me, but… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Oh!" said Prince Majnun, "I see you are Laili come back to me, but your eyes have grown so wonderfully beautiful, that I fainted when I saw them." Who acts: Prince, Laili, eyes. 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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 (Prince, Laili, eyes), 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:pg7128:13:33 # text = "Oh!" said Prince Majnun, "I see you are Laili come back to me, but your eyes have grown so wonderfully beautiful, that I fainted when I saw them." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 7 Majnun Majnun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 Laili Laili PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fainted faint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Prince | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Laili | | Prince | | | come *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | present · perfect | your eyes | | | | | beautiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **faint** *in a quote* | past | Prince | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Prince | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/34/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/13/)