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title: Prince Firouz Schah guessed what prompted so much kindness on the pa… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Firouz Schah guessed what prompted so much kindness on the part of the princess, and was much touched by it. Who acts: Firouz. 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 76

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Prince Firouz Schah guessed what prompted so much kindness on the part of the princess, and was much touched by it.

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**Who acts:** Firouz · **What happens:** guess, prompt, touch · **To what, where:** much kindness, part

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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 (Firouz), 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:pg128:38:76
# text = Prince Firouz Schah guessed what prompted so much kindness on the part of the princess, and was much touched by it.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Schah	Schah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	prompted	prompt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | Firouz  Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prompt** | past |  | much kindness |  | the part of the princess |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition kindness=Patient |
| 3 | **touch** | past · passive | Firouz  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by part | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |

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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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