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title: I shall dart an angry look at her and give her a sharp blow on the c… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall dart an angry look at her and give her a sharp blow on the cheek, at the same time giving her a kick so violent that she will stagger across the room and fall on to the sofa. Who acts: I, same time, mother. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, w
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 75

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I shall dart an angry look at her and give her a sharp blow on the cheek, at the same time giving her a kick so violent that she will stagger across the room and fall on to the sofa.

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**Who acts:** I, same time, mother · **What happens:** dart, give, stagger, fall on · **To what, where:** angry look, sharp blow, mother, cheek, kick, room

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, same time, mother), 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:pg128:20:75
# text = I shall dart an angry look at her and give her a sharp blow on the cheek, at the same time giving her a kick so violent that she will stagger across the room and fall on to the sofa.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dart	dart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	stagger	stagger	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
33	across	across	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dart** | shall | I | a angry look |  |  |  | at mother | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent look=Theme at she=Trajectory |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a sharp blow | mother | the cheek | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient blow=Theme on cheek=Asset |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the same time *not said here* | a kick | mother |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient kick=Theme |
| 4 | **stagger** | future | mother |  |  | the room |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across room=Trajectory |
| 5 | **fall on** | infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the sofa | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sofa=Theme |

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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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