--- title: The merchant, quite as much terrified at the hideous face of the mon… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The merchant, quite as much terrified at the hideous face of the monster as at his words, answered him tremblingly, "Alas, good sir, what can I have done to you to deserve death?" Who acts: merchant, Alas. 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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 (merchant, Alas), 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:pg128:2:4 # text = The merchant, quite as much terrified at the hideous face of the monster as at his words, answered him tremblingly, "Alas, good sir, what can I have done to you to deserve death?" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 terrified terrified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 20 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 tremblingly tremblingly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Alas Alas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 34 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 parataxis _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 deserve deserve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 39 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | the merchant | | monster | | | tremblingly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sir** *in a quote* | | Alas | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | can · perfect | the merchant *= merchant* | good sir | monster | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **deserve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the merchant *= merchant* *not said here* | death | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **word** | | merchant | | | | | | nom word «communication 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/2/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/2/5/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/2/)