The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 75

I shall dart an angry look at her and give her a sharp blow on the cheek, at the same time giving her a kick so violent that she will stagger across the room and fall on to the sofa.

Who acts: I, same time, mother · What happens: dart, give, stagger, fall on · To what, where: angry look, sharp blow, mother, cheek, kick, room

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, same time, mother), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dart	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dart	aux
3	dart	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 look	det
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	amod
6	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dart	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dart	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 give	cc
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dart	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 blow	det
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blow	amod
14	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 cheek	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cheek	det
17	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blow	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obl
23	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 time	acl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 giving	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 kick	det
26	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 giving	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 violent	advmod
28	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 giving	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 stagger	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stagger	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stagger	aux
32	stagger	stagger	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 violent	ccomp
33	across	across	ADP	_	35 room	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 room	det
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stagger	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fall	cc
37	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 stagger	conj
38	on	on	ADV	_	37 fall	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 sofa	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sofa	det
41	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fall	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dart	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dart	shall	I	a angry look				at mother	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent look=Theme at she=Trajectory
2	give	infinitive	I not said here	a sharp blow	mother	the cheek	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blow=Theme on cheek=Asset
3	give	gerund	the same time not said here	a kick	mother				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kick=Theme
4	stagger	future	mother			the room			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across room=Trajectory
5	fall on	infinitive	mother not said here					to the sofa	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sofa=Theme

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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