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title: "But why," cried the king in a burst of fear and anger, "why did you… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "But why," cried the king in a burst of fear and anger, "why did you not call him back when you saw him disappearing?" Who acts: king, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 78

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"But why," cried the king in a burst of fear and anger, "why did you not call him back when you saw him disappearing?"

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**Who acts:** king, you · **What happens:** cry, not call back, see, disappear, burst · **To what, where:** burst, king, fear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, you), 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:pg128:37:78
# text = "But why," cried the king in a burst of fear and anger, "why did you not call him back when you saw him disappearing?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the king |  |  | a burst of fear and anger |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burst=Location |
| 2 | **not** **call back** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · do-support | you |  | king |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | you | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disappear** *in a quote* | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **burst** |  |  | fear and anger |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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