The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 72

The princess was delighted to see her foster-brother again, and after some conversation she confided to him all her history and the cause of her imprisonment.

Who acts: princess · What happens: be, see, confide, cause, imprison · To what, where: foster brother, history, son, imprisonment

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 delighted	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
8	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 foster	punct
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
11	again	again	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 confided	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 confided	cc
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 conversation	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 conversation	det
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 confided	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 confided	nsubj
18	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 confided	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 history	det:predet
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 history	nmod:poss
23	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 confided	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cause	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cause	det
26	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 history	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 imprisonment	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 imprisonment	nmod:poss
29	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cause	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess				delighted property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	Princess's foster brother		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
3	confide speech: other	past	Princess	Princess's history and the cause of Princess's imprisonment	son	after some conversation		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	cause			Princess's imprisonment				nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
5	imprison		Princess					nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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