--- title: Standing quite still, Prince Firouz Schah looked about him, till his… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Standing quite still, Prince Firouz Schah looked about him, till his eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, and he noticed a bright light shining through a curtain in one corner. Who acts: Firouz, eyes, prince, bright light. 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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 (Firouz, eyes, prince, bright light), 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:pg128:38:3 # text = Standing quite still, Prince Firouz Schah looked about him, till his eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, and he noticed a bright light shining through a curtain in one corner. 1 Standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 quite quite ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 Firouz Firouz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Schah Schah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 gloom gloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | gerund | Firouz Prince *not said here* | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | past | Firouz Prince | | | | | about prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | prince's eyes | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **accustom** | participle | prince's eyes *not said here* | | | | | to the gloom | tree rules | | 5 | **notice** | past | prince | a bright light | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | | 6 | **shine** | gerund | a bright light *not said here* | | | a curtain | | in one corner | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through curtain=Location | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/4/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)