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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 82

At last she perceived in the distance the cage and the bird, whose voice joined itself in tones of thunder to those of the rest: "Return, return! never dare to come near me."

Who acts: princess, voice, Return · What happens: perceive, join, not dare, not come, intonate · To what, where: last, cage, tones, thunder · 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 (princess, voice, Return), 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

caseoblnsubjcasedetobldetnmod:unmarkedccdetconjpunctnmod:possnsubjconjobjcaseoblcasenmodcasenmodcasedetnmodpunctpunctnsubjpunctconjpunctadvmodparataxismarkxcompcaseoblpunctpunctrootAtADPlastADJshePRONperceivedVERBinADPtheDETdistanceNOUNtheDETcageNOUNandCCONJtheDETbirdNOUN,PUNCTwhosePRONvoiceNOUNjoinedVERBitselfPRONinADPtonesNOUNofADPthunderNOUNtoADPthosePRONofADPtheDETrestNOUN:PUNCT"PUNCTReturnNOUN,PUNCTreturnNOUN!PUNCTneverADVdareVERBtoPARTcomeVERBnearADPmePRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lastcase
2lastlastADJDegree=Pos4 perceivedobl
3sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 perceivednsubj
4perceivedperceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5ininADP_7 distancecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 distancedet
7distancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing4 perceivedobl
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 cagedet
9cagecageNOUNNumber=Sing7 distancenmod:unmarked
10andandCCONJ_12 birdcc
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 birddet
12birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing9 cageconj
13,,PUNCT_16 joinedpunct
14whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel15 voicenmod:poss
15voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing16 joinednsubj
16joinedjoinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 cageconj
17itselfitselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes16 joinedobj
18ininADP_19 tonescase
19tonestoneNOUNNumber=Plur16 joinedobl
20ofofADP_21 thundercase
21thunderthunderNOUNNumber=Sing19 tonesnmod
22totoADP_23 thosecase
23thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem21 thundernmod
24ofofADP_26 restcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 restdet
26restrestNOUNNumber=Sing23 thosenmod
27::PUNCT_29 Returnpunct
28""PUNCT_29 Returnpunct
29ReturnreturnNOUNNumber=Sing34 darensubj
30,,PUNCT_31 returnpunct
31returnreturnNOUNNumber=Sing29 Returnconj
32!!PUNCT_29 Returnpunct
33neverneverADVPronType=Neg34 dareadvmod
34daredareVERBVerbForm=Inf19 tonesparataxis
35totoPART_36 comemark
36comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf34 darexcomp
37nearnearADP_38 mecase
38meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs36 comeobl
39..PUNCT_4 perceivedpunct
40""PUNCT_4 perceivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1perceivepastprincesslastin the distance the cage and the birdvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2joinpastvoicecagetones of thunder to thosevn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
3not dare in a quoteinfinitiveReturn and returnvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4not come in a quoteto-infinitiveReturn and return not said herenear echoes = echovn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near i=Location
5intonatethunder to thosenom tone «communication 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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