--- title: At this I was greatly surprised, but looking carefully at him I reco… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: At this I was greatly surprised, but looking carefully at him I recognised him to be the captain of the ship upon which I had made my second voyage, though he had altered much since that time. Who acts: I, passenger, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/) / 58 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 58 At this I was greatly surprised, but looking carefully at him I recognised him to be the captain of the ship upon which I had made my second voyage, though he had altered much since that time. **Who acts:** I, passenger, my · **What happens:** be, look, recognise, make, alter, voyage · **To what, where:** this, passenger, captain, second voyage This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, passenger, my), 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:pg128:15:58 # text = At this I was greatly surprised, but looking carefully at him I recognised him to be the captain of the ship upon which I had made my second voyage, though he had altered much since that time. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 obl _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 10 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 recognised recognise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 advcl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obl _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 parataxis _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 altered alter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 36 much much ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 since since ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | I | | | this | | greatly, surprised *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | at passenger; carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 3 | **recognise** | past | I | passenger | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the captain | | | | of the ship | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | past · perfect | I | my second voyage | | | | upon the captain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Product | | 6 | **alter** | past · perfect | passenger | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **voyage** | | my | | | | | | nom voyage «act transitive»: 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:** «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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/)