--- title: Danhasch readily agreed, and on Maimoune striking the floor with her… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Danhasch readily agreed, and on Maimoune striking the floor with her foot it opened, and a hideous, hump-backed, lame, squinting genius, with six horns on his head, hands like claws, emerged. Who acts: Danhasch, floor. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/75/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/) / 75 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 75 Danhasch readily agreed, and on Maimoune striking the floor with her foot it opened, and a hideous, hump-backed, lame, squinting genius, with six horns on his head, hands like claws, emerged. **Who acts:** Danhasch, floor · **What happens:** agree, strike, open, back, squint, emerge · **To what, where:** floor, Maimoune, foot, hideous, genius This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danhasch, floor), 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:pg128:23:75 # text = Danhasch readily agreed, and on Maimoune striking the floor with her foot it opened, and a hideous, hump-backed, lame, squinting genius, with six horns on his head, hands like claws, emerged. 1 Danhasch Danhasch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 readily readily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Maimoune Maimoune PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 8 striking strike VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 backed back VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 lame lame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 squinting squint VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 28 genius genius NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 emerged emerge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Danhasch | | | | | readily *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **strike** | gerund | Danhasch *not said here* | the floor | | Maimoune | | with Maimoune's foot | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent floor=Patient with foot=Instrument | | 3 | **open** | past | floor | Maimoune's foot *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme | | 4 | **back** | participle · passive | | a hideous | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | | 5 | **squint** | gerund | Danhasch *not said here* | genius | | | | with six horns on Danhasch's head and hands like claws | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient | | 6 | **emerge** | participle | Danhasch *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/76/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/)