The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 59

The pretended princess appeared at this moment, and seeing that she had lost her prey, she said to him, "Do not be afraid.

Who acts: pretended princess, princess · What happens: pretend, appear, see, lose, say, not be · To what, where: prey, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretended princess, 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	3 princess	det
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 princess	amod
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seeing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seeing	cc
10	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 appeared	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 lost	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 seeing	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 prey	nmod:poss
16	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 afraid	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 afraid	punct
24	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 afraid	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 afraid	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 afraid	cop
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	participle						tree rules
2	appear	past	the pretended princess			moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	gerund	the pretended princess not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	lose	past · perfect	princess	princess's prey				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	past	princess		prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support	princess not said here				afraid property	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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