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title: Then she asked: “O Prince Almas-ruh-bakhsh, do you still wish so muc… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she asked: “O Prince Almas-ruh-bakhsh, do you still wish so much to make this journey to Waq of Qaf? Who acts: Jamila, Almas. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 81

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Then she asked: “O Prince Almas-ruh-bakhsh, do you still wish so much to make this journey to Waq of Qaf?

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**Who acts:** Jamila, Almas · **What happens:** ask, wish, make · **To what, where:** much, journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jamila, Almas), 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:pg3282:3:81
# text = Then she asked: “O Prince Almas-ruh-bakhsh, do you still wish so much to make this journey to Waq of Qaf?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Almas	Almas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ruh	ruh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	bakhsh	bakhsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Waq	Waq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Qaf	Qaf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Jamila |  |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Almas  Prince | much |  |  | still |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | this journey |  |  |  | to Waq of Qaf | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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