The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 78

"But why," cried the king in a burst of fear and anger, "why did you not call him back when you saw him disappearing?"

Who acts: king, you · What happens: cry, not call back, see, disappear, burst · To what, where: burst, king, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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	_	27 saw	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cried	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 burst	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 burst	det
11	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 fear	case
13	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burst	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 anger	cc
15	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fear	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 call	punct
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 call	advmod
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 call	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 call	nsubj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 call	advmod
22	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 saw	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 call	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 call	advmod
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	obj
29	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 saw	xcomp
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 disappearing	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the king			a burst of fear and anger	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burst=Location
2	not call back speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	you		king		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	see in a quote	past	you	king			tree rules
4	disappear in a quote	gerund	king not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	burst			fear and anger			nom burst «act 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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