The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 6
But the prince soothed her fears so successfully, that she soon had no other thought than to arrange for their flight so secretly, that no one in the palace should suspect it.
Who acts: prince, Firouz, one · What happens: soothe, have, arrange, suspect, fear · To what, where: fears, other thought, thought
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Firouz, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 soothed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soothed | nsubj |
| 4 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 soothed | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 successfully | advmod |
| 8 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 4 soothed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 had | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 soothed | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 thought | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thought | amod |
| 16 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 arrange | mark |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 arrange | mark |
| 19 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 flight | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 flight | nmod:poss |
| 22 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arrange | obl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 secretly | advmod |
| 24 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 19 arrange | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 suspect | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 suspect | mark |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 suspect | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 one | nmod |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 suspect | aux |
| 33 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 suspect | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 soothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soothe | past | the prince | Firouz's fears | successfully property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | have | past | Firouz | no other thought | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | |||
| 3 | arrange | to-infinitive | Firouz not said here | no other thought not said here | for silence's flight; secretly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for flight=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | suspect | should | no one in the palace | thought | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | fear | Firouz | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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