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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 90

"On the contrary," replied the princess, "it is I who have found one," and opening the box she showed her astonished brothers the pearls inside.

Who acts: princess, contrary · What happens: reply, be, find, open, show · To what, where: contrary, princess, one, astonished brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, contrary), 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

punctcasedetoblpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjcopnsubjnsubjauxconjobjpunctpunctccnsubjdetnsubjnsubjconjnmod:possamodobjdetconjadvmodpunctroot"PUNCTOnADPtheDETcontraryNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETprincessNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTitPRONisAUXIPRONwhoPRONhaveAUXfoundVERBoneNUM,PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJopeningVERBtheDETboxNOUNshePRONshowedVERBherPRONastonishedADJbrothersNOUNtheDETpearlsNOUNinsideADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_7 repliedpunct
2OnonADP_4 contrarycase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 contrarydet
4contrarycontraryNOUNNumber=Sing7 repliedobl
5,,PUNCT_4 contrarypunct
6""PUNCT_4 contrarypunct
7repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 princessdet
9princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing7 repliedobj
10,,PUNCT_17 foundpunct
11""PUNCT_17 foundpunct
12ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 Insubj
13isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 Icop
14IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 foundnsubj
15whowhoPRONPronType=Rel17 foundnsubj
16havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 foundaux
17foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 repliedconj
18oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card17 foundobj
19,,PUNCT_18 onepunct
20""PUNCT_17 foundpunct
21andandCCONJ_26 showedcc
22openingopenVERBVerbForm=Ger26 showednsubj
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 boxdet
24boxboxNOUNNumber=Sing26 showednsubj
25sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 showednsubj
26showedshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 foundconj
27herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 brothersnmod:poss
28astonishedastonishedADJDegree=Pos29 brothersamod
29brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur26 showedobj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 pearlsdet
31pearlspearlNOUNNumber=Plur29 brothersconj
32insideinsideADV_26 showedadvmod
33..PUNCT_7 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastthe princessthe contraryvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is a in a quotepresentcontrarythe princess = princesstree rules
3find in a quotepresent · perfectthe princess = princessonevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4opengerundvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5showpastprincess's astonished brothers and the pearlsinside propertyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient

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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