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description: But, fascinated though he was, he was well aware of the danger of his position, as one cry of surprise would awake the guards, and cause his certain death. Who acts: prince, one cry, surprise. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tre
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 6

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But, fascinated though he was, he was well aware of the danger of his position, as one cry of surprise would awake the guards, and cause his certain death.

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**Who acts:** prince, one cry, surprise · **What happens:** fascinate, be, awake, cause, cry, die · **To what, where:** guards, certain death

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, one cry, surprise), 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:pg128:38:6
# text = But, fascinated though he was, he was well aware of the danger of his position, as one cry of surprise would awake the guards, and cause his certain death.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fascinate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | of the danger of prince's position; aware, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **awake** | would | one cry of surprise | the guards |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location guard=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | infinitive | one cry of surprise *not said here* | prince's certain death |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient |
| 5 | **cry** |  | surprise |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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