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title: Alnaschar was entirely swallowed up in this chimerical vision, and c… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Alnaschar was entirely swallowed up in this chimerical vision, and could not forbear acting with his foot what he had in his thoughts; so that unluckily striking his basket of brittle ware, which was the foundation of all his grandeur, he kicked his glasses to a great distance from him into the stre
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 33

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Alnaschar was entirely swallowed up in this chimerical vision, and could not forbear acting with his foot what he had in his thoughts; so that unluckily striking his basket of brittle ware, which was the foundation of all his grandeur, he kicked his glasses to a great distance from him into the street, and broke them into ten thousand pieces.

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**Who acts:** Alnaschar, brittle ware · **What happens:** swallow up, not forbear, act, have, strike, be · **To what, where:** Alnaschar, chimerical vision, thoughts, basket, foundation, glasses

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alnaschar, brittle ware), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:16:33
# text = Alnaschar was entirely swallowed up in this chimerical vision, and could not forbear acting with his foot what he had in his thoughts; so that unluckily striking his basket of brittle ware, which was the foundation of all his grandeur, he kicked his glasses to a great distance from him into the street, and broke them into ten thousand pieces.
1	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	chimerical	chimerical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	forbear	forbear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	46	mark	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	brittle	brittle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	kicked	kick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nmod	_	_
55	into	into	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	_
62	into	into	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	64	compound	_	_
64	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	65	nummod	_	_
65	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow up** | past · passive |  | Alnaschar |  | this chimerical vision |  | entirely *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **forbear** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **act** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with Alnaschar's foot; what *obj* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past | Alnaschar |  |  | Alnaschar's thoughts |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **strike** | gerund | Alnaschar *not said here* | Alnaschar's basket of brittle ware |  |  |  | unluckily *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past | brittle ware | the foundation |  |  |  | of Alnaschar's grandeur | tree rules |
| 7 | **kick** | past | Alnaschar | Alnaschar's glasses |  | the street |  | to a great distance from basket *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent glass=Patient to distance=Result |
| 8 | **break** | past | Alnaschar *not said here* | glasses *= glass* |  |  |  | into thousand pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into piece=Result |
| 9 | **think** |  | Alnaschar |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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