The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 72

"Dog," cried the princess when she first caught sight of him, "you think to strike terror into me by daring to present yourself before me in this hideous shape."

Who acts: Dog, you · What happens: cry, catch, think, strike, dare, present · To what, where: princess, sight, terror, yourself, hideous shape, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dog	punct
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dog	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dog	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 caught	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	nsubj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 caught	advmod
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	advcl
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sight	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
18	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 strike	mark
20	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 think	xcomp
21	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strike	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 strike	obl
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 daring	mark
25	daring	dare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 strike	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 present	mark
27	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 daring	xcomp
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 present	obj
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 present	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 shape	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 shape	det
33	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 shape	amod
34	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 present	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Dog	the princess				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	catch	past	Dog	sight of air			first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	you					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	strike in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	terror			into Dog	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent terror=Patient into i=Result
5	dare in a quote	gerund	you not said here					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	present in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself	this hideous shape	before Dog		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
7	sight			air				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

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