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title: In spite of her grief and anxiety however, she did not lose her pres… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 11

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg128:26:11
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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