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title: The princess was delighted to see her foster-brother again, and afte… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess was delighted to see her foster-brother again, and after some conversation she confided to him all her history and the cause of her imprisonment. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 72

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The princess was delighted to see her foster-brother again, and after some conversation she confided to him all her history and the cause of her imprisonment.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** be, see, confide, cause, imprison · **To what, where:** foster brother, history, son, imprisonment

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:24:72
# text = The princess was delighted to see her foster-brother again, and after some conversation she confided to him all her history and the cause of her imprisonment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	confided	confide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | Princess's foster brother |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | past | Princess | Princess's history and the cause of Princess's imprisonment | son |  | after some conversation |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **cause** |  |  | Princess's imprisonment |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **imprison** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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