The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 48

At this the princess lost all patience, and taking the nurse by her hair she boxed her ears soundly, crying out: "You shall tell me, you old witch, or I'll kill you."

Who acts: Princess, You, nurse · What happens: lose, take, box, cry out, tell, witch · To what, where: patience, nurse, ears, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, You, nurse), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 princess	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 princess	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 patience	det
7	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 taking	cc
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lost	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nurse	det
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 hair	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 boxed	nsubj
17	boxed	box	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hair	acl:relcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 boxed	obj
20	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	17 boxed	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crying	punct
22	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 taking	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 crying	compound:prt
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
26	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lost	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 witch	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 witch	nsubj
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 witch	amod
33	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kill	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 kill	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 kill	nsubj
37	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 kill	aux
38	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	conj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 kill	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lose	past		all patience		at this princess	tree rules
2	take	gerund		the nurse		by Princess's hair	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme
3	box	past	Princess	Princess's ears		soundly property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent
4	cry out speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	shall	You		the nurse = nurse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	witch in a quote		you				tree rules
7	kill in a quote	future	the nurse = nurse	you			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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