The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 11

In spite of her grief and anxiety however, she did not lose her presence of mind, but decided on a courageous, though very unusual step.

Who acts: wife · What happens: not lose, decide, spite · To what, where: presence, spite, grief

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 grief	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grief	nmod:poss
5	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 anxiety	cc
7	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grief	conj
8	however	however	ADV	_	2 spite	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lose	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lose	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 lose	advmod
13	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 presence	nmod:poss
15	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 mind	case
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 presence	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 decided	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 decided	cc
20	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lose	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 courageous	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 courageous	det
23	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 decided	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 step	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 step	mark
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 unusual	advmod
27	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 step	amod
28	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lose	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not lose	past · do-support	wife	wife's presence of mind	spite of wife's grief and anxiety	unusual step obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Eventuality
2	decide	past	wife not said here			courageous property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spite			wife's grief and anxiety			nom spite «feeling 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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