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title: Goaded by his threats she sprang to her feet, calling loudly for hel… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Goaded by his threats she sprang to her feet, calling loudly for help, and luckily her cries were heard by a troop of horsemen, who rode up to inquire what was the matter. Who acts: Goaded threats, troop, horsemen, Princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 50

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Goaded by his threats she sprang to her feet, calling loudly for help, and luckily her cries were heard by a troop of horsemen, who rode up to inquire what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** Goaded threats, troop, horsemen, Princess · **What happens:** goad, spring, call, hear, ride up, inquire · **To what, where:** feet, cries, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goaded threats, troop, horsemen, Princess), 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:pg128:39:50
# text = Goaded by his threats she sprang to her feet, calling loudly for help, and luckily her cries were heard by a troop of horsemen, who rode up to inquire what was the matter.
1	Goaded	goad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **goad** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spring** | past | horse's Goaded threats |  |  | Princess's feet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | horse's Goaded threats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help; loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive | a troop of horsemen | Princess's cries |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **ride up** | past | horsemen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | horsemen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **cry** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication 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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