The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 59

He looked up, startled and frightened at the sight of a stranger in such a place, and to soothe his fears, I at once spoke: "Be not alarmed, sir, whoever you may be.

Who acts: boy, I · What happens: look up, startle, frighten, soothe, speak, not alarm · To what, where: sight, fears, sir, whoever, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 startled	punct
5	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 looked	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 frightened	cc
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 startled	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 sight	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sight	det
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frightened	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stranger	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stranger	det
13	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sight	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 place	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 place	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stranger	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 soothe	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 soothe	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 soothe	mark
21	soothe	soothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fears	nmod:poss
23	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 soothe	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spoke	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 spoke	nsubj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 once	case
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 spoke	obl
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 alarmed	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 alarmed	punct
31	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 alarmed	aux:pass
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 alarmed	advmod
33	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 spoke	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sir	punct
35	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 alarmed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 whoever	punct
37	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sir	nmod
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 be	nsubj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 be	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 whoever	cop
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look up	past	boy			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	startle	participle	boy not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	frighten	participle	boy not said here		the sight of a stranger in such place	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	soothe	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy's fears		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer
5	speak speech: other	past	I			tree rules
6	not alarm in a quote	infinitive · passive		sir		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
7	is a in a quote	infinitive		whoever		tree rules
8	sight			a stranger in such place		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	fear		boy			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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