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title: This horrible sight turned me faint, but, to my surprise, my uncle d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This horrible sight turned me faint, but, to my surprise, my uncle did not show so much surprise as anger. Who acts: horrible sight, uncle, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 1

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This horrible sight turned me faint, but, to my surprise, my uncle did not show so much surprise as anger.

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**Who acts:** horrible sight, uncle, my · **What happens:** turn, not show, surprise · **To what, where:** me, much surprise, surprise

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrible sight, uncle, my), 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:pg128:8:1
# text = This horrible sight turned me faint, but, to my surprise, my uncle did not show so much surprise as anger.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | this horrible sight | me |  |  |  | faint *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme i=Result |
| 2 | **not** **show** | past · do-support | my uncle | much surprise | my surprise |  |  | as anger | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent surprise=Topic to surprise=Recipient |
| 3 | **surprise** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: 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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