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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 20

She saw his confusion, and disdained him: How, says she, dares the wretch hope my obedience, who thus shrinks at my glance?

Who acts: dignity, obedience, Almamoulin, my · What happens: see, disdain, say, dare, hope, shrink · To what, where: confusion, Almamoulin, dignity, wretch, obedience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dignity, obedience, Almamoulin, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjnmod:possobjpunctccparataxisobjpunctadvmodpunctconjobjpunctconjdetobjxcompnmod:possobjpunctnsubjadvmodacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootShePRONsawVERBhisPRONconfusionNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdisdainedVERBhimPRON:PUNCTHowADV,PUNCTsaysVERBshePRON,PUNCTdaresVERBtheDETwretchNOUNhopeVERBmyPRONobedienceNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONthusADVshrinksVERBatADPmyPRONglanceNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 sawnsubj
2sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 confusionnmod:poss
4confusionconfusionNOUNNumber=Sing2 sawobj
5,,PUNCT_7 disdainedpunct
6andandCCONJ_7 disdainedcc
7disdaineddisdainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sawparataxis
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 disdainedobj
9::PUNCT_12 sayspunct
10HowhowADVPronType=Int12 saysadvmod
11,,PUNCT_10 Howpunct
12sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 disdainedconj
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 saysobj
14,,PUNCT_15 darespunct
15daresdareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 saysconj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 wretchdet
17wretchwretchNOUNNumber=Sing15 daresobj
18hopehopeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 daresxcomp
19mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 obediencenmod:poss
20obedienceobedienceNOUNNumber=Sing18 hopeobj
21,,PUNCT_24 shrinkspunct
22whowhoPRONPronType=Rel24 shrinksnsubj
23thusthusADV_24 shrinksadvmod
24shrinksshrinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 obedienceacl:relcl
25atatADP_27 glancecase
26mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 glancenmod:poss
27glanceglanceNOUNNumber=Sing24 shrinksobl
28??PUNCT_2 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastdignityAlmamoulin's confusionvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer confusion=Stimulus
2disdainpastAlmamoulinvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3say speech: assertpresentdignityvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4darepresentthe wretchvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wretch=Recipient clause=Topic
5hopepresentmy obediencetree rules
6shrinkpresentmy obedienceat my glance; thus propertyvn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at glance=Stimulus
7confuseAlmamoulinnom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent
8obeymynom obedience «act transitive»: poss=agent
9glancemynom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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