--- title: His voice and manner were so terrific that Alnaschar had not strengt… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: His voice and manner were so terrific that Alnaschar had not strength to reply, and allowed his gold to be taken from him, and even sabre cuts to be inflicted on him without making any resistance. Who acts: voice, Alnaschar, gold. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/26/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/) / 26 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 26 His voice and manner were so terrific that Alnaschar had not strength to reply, and allowed his gold to be taken from him, and even sabre cuts to be inflicted on him without making any resistance. **Who acts:** voice, Alnaschar, gold · **What happens:** be, have, reply, allow, take, sabre · **To what, where:** strength, gold, cuts, resistance This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, Alnaschar, gold), 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:pg128:21:26 # text = His voice and manner were so terrific that Alnaschar had not strength to reply, and allowed his gold to be taken from him, and even sabre cuts to be inflicted on him without making any resistance. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 terrific terrific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 Alnaschar Alnaschar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 reply reply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 allowed allow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 sabre sabre VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 inflicted inflict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 without without SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 37 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 resistance resistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | door's voice and manner | | | | | terrific *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | Alnaschar | strength | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Alnaschar *not said here* | strength *not said here* | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **allow** | past | door's voice and manner *not said here* | door's gold | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer gold=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | door's gold *not said here* | | | | | from door | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: from he=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **sabre** | present | door's voice and manner *not said here* | cuts | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **inflict** | to-infinitive · passive | door's voice and manner *not said here* | | | | | on door | tree rules | | 8 | **make** | gerund | door's voice and manner *not said here* | any resistance | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resistance=Product | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/27/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/21/)