--- title: Then he strode boldly on, but had scarcely gone five or six paces wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Then he strode boldly on, but had scarcely gone five or six paces when he was startled by a man's voice that seemed close to his ear, exclaiming: "Stop, rash fellow, and let me punish your audacity." Who acts: dervish, voice. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/57/) [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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/) / 57 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 57 Then he strode boldly on, but had scarcely gone five or six paces when he was startled by a man's voice that seemed close to his ear, exclaiming: "Stop, rash fellow, and let me punish your audacity." **Who acts:** dervish, voice · **What happens:** stride, go, startle, seem, exclaim, stop · **To what, where:** five paces, dervish, rash fellow, audacity · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, voice), 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:pg128:42:57 # text = Then he strode boldly on, but had scarcely gone five or six paces when he was startled by a man's voice that seemed close to his ear, exclaiming: "Stop, rash fellow, and let me punish your audacity." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 strode stride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 11 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 conj _ _ 14 paces pace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 exclaiming exclaim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 rash rash ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 punish punish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 audacity audacity NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stride** | past | dervish | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past · perfect | | five paces | | | | scarcely *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pace=Theme | | 3 | **startle** | past · passive | a man's voice | dervish | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **seem** | past | a man's voice | | | | | close *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | a man's voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | rash fellow | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fellow=Eventuality | | 7 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the dervish *= dervish* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **punish** *in a quote* | infinitive | the dervish *= dervish* *not said here* | your audacity | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audacity=Patient | 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/pg128/42/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/42/)