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title: Suddenly a fearful scream rent the air, and the next instant the sla… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly a fearful scream rent the air, and the next instant the slaves came up the steps, carrying with them the body of the old man, who had fainted from sorrow! Who acts: fearful scream, next instant, old man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, wit
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 90

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Suddenly a fearful scream rent the air, and the next instant the slaves came up the steps, carrying with them the body of the old man, who had fainted from sorrow!

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**Who acts:** fearful scream, next instant, old man · **What happens:** rend, come up, carry, faint · **To what, where:** air, steps, body

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fearful scream, next instant, old man), 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:pg128:11:90
# text = Suddenly a fearful scream rent the air, and the next instant the slaves came up the steps, carrying with them the body of the old man, who had fainted from sorrow!
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rent	rend	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	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	fainted	faint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rend** | past | a fearful scream | the air |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
| 2 | **come up** | past | the next instant and the slaves | the steps |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | the next instant and the slaves *not said here* | the body of the old man |  |  |  | with slaves *= slave* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 4 | **faint** | past · perfect | the old man |  |  |  |  | from sorrow | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from sorrow=Stimulus |

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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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