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title: In fact, neither trouble nor cost has been spared to make this retre… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In fact, neither trouble nor cost has been spared to make this retreat agreeable to the princess. Who acts: this. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 31

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In fact, neither trouble nor cost has been spared to make this retreat agreeable to the princess.

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** spare, make, retreat · **To what, where:** fact, this

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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:pg128:23:31
# text = In fact, neither trouble nor cost has been spared to make this retreat agreeable to the princess.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc:preconj	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
7	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	retreat	retreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spare** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | fact  trouble nor cost |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset» |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **retreat** | infinitive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  | agreeable *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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