--- title: The words were hardly out of the king's mouth when the Indian turned… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The words were hardly out of the king's mouth when the Indian turned a screw placed in the horse's neck, close to the saddle, and the animal bounded like lightning up into the air, and was soon beyond the sight even of the sharpest eyes. Who acts: words, Indian. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Ent --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/57/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/) / 57 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 57 The words were hardly out of the king's mouth when the Indian turned a screw placed in the horse's neck, close to the saddle, and the animal bounded like lightning up into the air, and was soon beyond the sight even of the sharpest eyes. **Who acts:** words, Indian · **What happens:** be, turn, place, bound up · **To what, where:** mouth, screw, neck, animal, air This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Indian), 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:pg128:37:57 # text = The words were hardly out of the king's mouth when the Indian turned a screw placed in the horse's neck, close to the saddle, and the animal bounded like lightning up into the air, and was soon beyond the sight even of the sharpest eyes. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 4 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ _ 14 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 screw screw NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 bounded bound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 up up ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 42 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 45 advmod _ _ 43 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 46 even even ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 sharpest sharp ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 50 amod _ _ 50 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the words | | | the king's mouth | | hardly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | past | the Indian | a screw | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent screw=Theme | | 3 | **place** | participle | | a screw *not said here* | | the horse's neck | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in neck=Destination | | 4 | **bound up** | participle · passive | | the animal | | the air | | like lightning | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | beyond the sight and the sharpest eyes; soon *property* | tree rules | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/)