--- title: At this the princess lost all patience, and taking the nurse by her… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: At this the princess lost all patience, and taking the nurse by her hair she boxed her ears soundly, crying out: "You shall tell me, you old witch, or I'll kill you." Who acts: Princess, You, nurse. 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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 (Princess, You, nurse), 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:pg128:24:48 # text = At this the princess lost all patience, and taking the nurse by her hair she boxed her ears soundly, crying out: "You shall tell me, you old witch, or I'll kill you." 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 5 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 boxed box VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 soundly soundly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | | all patience | | | | at this princess | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | gerund | | the nurse | | | | by Princess's hair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme | | 3 | **box** | past | Princess | Princess's ears | | | | soundly *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent | | 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | shall | You | | the nurse *= nurse* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 6 | **witch** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **kill** *in a quote* | future | the nurse *= nurse* | you | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/49/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/)