The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 57

Then he strode boldly on, but had scarcely gone five or six paces when he was startled by a man's voice that seemed close to his ear, exclaiming: "Stop, rash fellow, and let me punish your audacity."

Who acts: dervish, voice · What happens: stride, go, startle, seem, exclaim, stop · To what, where: five paces, dervish, rash fellow, audacity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, voice), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 strode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strode	nsubj
3	strode	stride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 on	advmod
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 strode	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
9	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	10 gone	advmod
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 strode	parataxis
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 paces	nummod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 six	cc
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 five	conj
14	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gone	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 startled	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 startled	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 startled	aux:pass
18	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gone	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 voice	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 voice	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 man	case
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 startled	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 voice	acl:relcl
26	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 seemed	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 ear	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ear	nmod:poss
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 exclaiming	punct
31	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 startled	advcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Stop	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 Stop	punct
34	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 strode	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fellow	punct
36	rash	rash	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fellow	amod
37	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Stop	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 let	cc
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 Stop	conj
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 let	obj
42	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	xcomp
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 audacity	nmod:poss
44	audacity	audacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 punish	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 Stop	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stride	past	dervish		then		tree rules
2	go	past · perfect		five paces		scarcely property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pace=Theme
3	startle	past · passive	a man's voice	dervish			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	seem	past	a man's voice			close property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	exclaim speech: express	gerund	a man's voice not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	stop in a quote	infinitive		rash fellow			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fellow=Eventuality
7	let in a quote	infinitive		the dervish = dervish			tree rules
8	punish in a quote	infinitive	the dervish = dervish not said here	your audacity			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audacity=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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