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title: The princess opened her eyes, and seeing before her a handsome well-… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess opened her eyes, and seeing before her a handsome well-dressed man, she remained speechless with astonishment. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 8

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The princess opened her eyes, and seeing before her a handsome well-dressed man, she remained speechless with astonishment.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** open, see, dress, remain · **To what, where:** eyes, handsome dressed man

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. 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:pg128:38:8
# text = The princess opened her eyes, and seeing before her a handsome well-dressed man, she remained speechless with astonishment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	speechless	speechless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the princess | princess's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | princess *not said here* | a handsome dressed man |  |  | before princess |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remain** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | speechless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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