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title: This decision had been foreseen by the princess, who knew quite well… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 72

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This decision had been foreseen by the princess, who knew quite well that if once she allowed the physicians to feel her pulse, the most ignorant of them would discover that she was in perfectly good health, and that her madness was feigned, so as each man approached, she broke out into such violent paroxysms, that not one dared to lay a finger on her.

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**Who acts:** princess, physicians, pulse, man, one · **What happens:** foresee, know, allow, feel, discover, be · **To what, where:** decision, physicians, good health, madness, such violent paroxysms, finger

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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 (princess, physicians, pulse, man), 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:pg128:39:72
# text = This decision had been foreseen by the princess, who knew quite well that if once she allowed the physicians to feel her pulse, the most ignorant of them would discover that she was in perfectly good health, and that her madness was feigned, so as each man approached, she broke out into such violent paroxysms, that not one dared to lay a finger on her.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	foreseen	foresee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pulse	pulse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	feigned	feign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
56	out	out	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	into	into	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	paroxysms	paroxysm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
63	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
64	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	65	nsubj	_	_
65	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	parataxis	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	xcomp	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obj	_	_
70	on	on	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
71	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foresee** | past · perfect · passive | the princess | this decision |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **allow** | past | Princess | the physicians |  |  |  | once *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer physician=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the physicians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **discover** | would | Princess's pulse |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  | good health |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **feign** | past · passive |  | Princess's madness |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **approach** | past | each man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **break out** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | into such violent paroxysms *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into paroxysm=Result |
| 10 | **dare** | participle | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 11 | **lay** | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | a finger |  |  |  | on Princess | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on she=Destination |
| 12 | **pulse** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom pulse «event 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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