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title: "Dog," cried the princess when she first caught sight of him, "you t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Dog," cried the princess when she first caught sight of him, "you think to strike terror into me by daring to present yourself before me in this hideous shape." Who acts: Dog, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 72

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"Dog," cried the princess when she first caught sight of him, "you think to strike terror into me by daring to present yourself before me in this hideous shape."

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**Who acts:** Dog, you · **What happens:** cry, catch, think, strike, dare, present · **To what, where:** princess, sight, terror, yourself, hideous shape, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:10:72
# text = "Dog," cried the princess when she first caught sight of him, "you think to strike terror into me by daring to present yourself before me in this hideous shape."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	daring	dare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
33	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Dog | the princess |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
| 2 | **catch** | past | Dog | sight of air |  |  |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | terror |  |  |  | into Dog | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent terror=Patient into i=Result |
| 5 | **dare** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **present** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  | this hideous shape | before Dog |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | air |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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