The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 71
The princess brought this good news to her husband, who thanked her tenderly for this fresh proof of her affection.
Who acts: princess, husband · What happens: bring, thank, proof · To what, where: good news, husband, tenderly, affection
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, husband), 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 | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 news | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 husband | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thanked | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 thanked | nsubj |
| 12 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 husband | acl:relcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tenderly | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thanked | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 proof | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 proof | det |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 proof | amod |
| 18 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thanked | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 affection | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 affection | nmod:poss |
| 21 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 proof | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the princess | this good news | princess's husband | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme to husband=Destination | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | princess's husband | princess's tenderly | for this fresh proof of princess's affection | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tenderly=Theme for proof=Attribute | |||
| 3 | proof | princess's affection | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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.
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