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title: Elfi Bey did not tell Omar his father’s name, but expressly desired… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Elfi Bey did not tell Omar his father’s name, but expressly desired him to be at a great pillar four days’ journey east of Alexandria on the fourth day of the coming month, on which day he would be twenty-two years old. Who acts: Elfi, four days, father. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by And
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 51

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Elfi Bey did not tell Omar his father’s name, but expressly desired him to be at a great pillar four days’ journey east of Alexandria on the fourth day of the coming month, on which day he would be twenty-two years old.

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**Who acts:** Elfi, four days, father · **What happens:** not tell, desire, be, east, come, name · **To what, where:** name, Omar, Elfi, great pillar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elfi, four days, father), 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:pg2435:34:51
# text = Elfi Bey did not tell Omar his father’s name, but expressly desired him to be at a great pillar four days’ journey east of Alexandria on the fourth day of the coming month, on which day he would be twenty-two years old.
1	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Bey	Bey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Omar	Omar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	expressly	expressly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	amod	_	_
36	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	40	det	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
44	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	conj	_	_
47	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Elfi | Elfi's father's name | Omar |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent omar=Recipient name=Topic |
| 2 | **desire** | past | Elfi *not said here* | Elfi |  |  |  | expressly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a great pillar |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **east** |  | four days |  |  |  | day | of Alexandria | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | would | Elfi |  |  |  | day; year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **name** |  | Elfi's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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