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title: At the sound of his voice, the Princess of Bengal suddenly grew calm… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At the sound of his voice, the Princess of Bengal suddenly grew calm, and an expression of joy overspread her face, such as only comes when what we wish for most and expect the least suddenly happens to us. Who acts: Princess, expression, face, we. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» b
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 10

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At the sound of his voice, the Princess of Bengal suddenly grew calm, and an expression of joy overspread her face, such as only comes when what we wish for most and expect the least suddenly happens to us.

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**Who acts:** Princess, expression, face, we · **What happens:** grow, overspread, come, wish, expect, happen · **To what, where:** sound, face, us

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, expression, face, we), 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:pg128:40:10
# text = At the sound of his voice, the Princess of Bengal suddenly grew calm, and an expression of joy overspread her face, such as only comes when what we wish for most and expect the least suddenly happens to us.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	overspread	overspread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	obl	_	_
39	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the Princess of Bengal |  |  | the sound of Prince's voice |  | calm, suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Location |
| 2 | **overspread** | past | a expression of joy | princess's face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | princess's face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | present | we |  |  |  |  | for most | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **expect** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **happen** | present | we *not said here* |  | us |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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