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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 20

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She saw his confusion, and disdained him: How, says she, dares the wretch hope my obedience, who thus shrinks at my glance?

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**Who acts:** dignity, obedience, Almamoulin, my · **What happens:** see, disdain, say, dare, hope, shrink · **To what, where:** confusion, Almamoulin, dignity, wretch, obedience · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dignity, obedience, Almamoulin, my), 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:pg62868:18:20
# text = She saw his confusion, and disdained him: How, says she, dares the wretch hope my obedience, who thus shrinks at my glance?
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	disdained	disdain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	xcomp	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | dignity | Almamoulin's confusion |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer confusion=Stimulus |
| 2 | **disdain** | past |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | dignity |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 4 | **dare** | present |  | the wretch |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wretch=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **hope** | present |  | my obedience |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shrink** | present | my obedience |  |  |  |  | at my glance; thus *property* | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at glance=Stimulus |
| 7 | **confuse** |  | Almamoulin |  |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **obey** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **glance** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act 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:** «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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