The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

The merchant, quite as much terrified at the hideous face of the monster as at his words, answered him tremblingly, "Alas, good sir, what can I have done to you to deserve death?"

Who acts: merchant, Alas · What happens: answer, sir, do, deserve, word · To what, where: monster, good sir, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, Alas), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 terrified	punct
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 terrified	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 terrified	amod
7	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 merchant	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 face	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 face	det
10	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 terrified	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 monster	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monster	det
14	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	nmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 words	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 words	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 words	nmod:poss
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 terrified	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	obj
22	tremblingly	tremblingly	ADV	_	20 answered	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sir	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 sir	punct
25	Alas	Alas	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sir	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sir	punct
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sir	amod
28	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 done	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 done	obj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 done	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 done	aux
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 sir	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 done	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 deserve	mark
38	deserve	deserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 done	advcl
39	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 deserve	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 done	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 sir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: ask	past	the merchant		monster	tremblingly property	tree rules
2	sir in a quote		Alas				tree rules
3	do in a quote	can · perfect	the merchant = merchant	good sir	monster		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	deserve in a quote	to-infinitive	the merchant = merchant not said here	death			tree rules
5	word		merchant				nom word «communication 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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