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title: But the prince soothed her fears so successfully, that she soon had… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 6

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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.

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**Who acts:** prince, Firouz, one · **What happens:** soothe, have, arrange, suspect, fear · **To what, where:** fears, other thought, thought

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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.

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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:pg128:39:6
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	soothed	soothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	successfully	successfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	suspect	suspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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