--- title: Shaking with fright and half suffocated by the poisonous breath of t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Shaking with fright and half suffocated by the poisonous breath of the monster, I came out of my tent and crawled down to the sea, feeling that it would be better to plunge from the cliffs and end my life at once than pass such another night of horror. Who acts: I, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:15:46 # text = Shaking with fright and half suffocated by the poisonous breath of the monster, I came out of my tent and crawled down to the sea, feeling that it would be better to plunge from the cliffs and end my life at once than pass such another night of horror. 1 Shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 advmod _ _ 6 suffocated suffocate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 out out ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 tent tent NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 plunge plunge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 csubj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 41 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 40 obl _ _ 45 than than SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 46 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 47 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 49 det _ _ 49 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | with fright | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fright=Co-Patient | | 2 | **suffocate** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | by the poisonous breath of the monster; half *property* | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **come out** | past | I | my tent | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tent=Result | | 4 | **crawl down** | past | I *not said here* | | | the sea | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination | | 5 | **feel** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | would | it | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **plunge** | to-infinitive | | | | the cliffs | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from cliff=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **end** | infinitive | | my life | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality | | 9 | **pass** | infinitive | | | | | night | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/47/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/)