The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 50

He picked it up, and what was his surprise when he recognised the Princess Badoura's talisman which had been the cause of many misfortunes.

Who acts: Prince, talisman · What happens: pick up, be, recognise · To what, where: scene, surprise, talisman, cause

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 (Prince, talisman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 picked	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 surprise	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 surprise	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 surprise	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 surprise	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 surprise	nmod:poss
10	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 recognised	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 recognised	nsubj
13	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 picked	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Badoura	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Badoura	compound
16	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 talisman	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Badoura	case
18	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 recognised	obj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 cause	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cause	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 cause	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cause	det
23	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talisman	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 misfortunes	case
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 misfortunes	amod
26	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cause	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	Prince	scene		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is a	past		Prince's surprise		tree rules
3	recognise	past	Prince	the Princess Badoura's talisman		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talisman=Stimulus
4	is a	past · perfect	the Princess Badoura's talisman	the cause	of many misfortunes	tree rules

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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