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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 72

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The princess agreed with all that her father said, and orders were issued for vast numbers of elephants and camels, and gorgeous tents and flags, and litters for the ladies, and horses for the men, to be prepared without delay, as the king and princess were going to pay a visit to the great and munificent prince Wali Dâd.

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**Who acts:** princess, king · **What happens:** agree, say, issue, prepare, go, pay · **To what, where:** princess, orders, visit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, king), 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:pg3282:34:72
# text = The princess agreed with all that her father said, and orders were issued for vast numbers of elephants and camels, and gorgeous tents and flags, and litters for the ladies, and horses for the men, to be prepared without delay, as the king and princess were going to pay a visit to the great and munificent prince Wali Dâd.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	litters	litter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	appos	_	_
44	without	without	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
60	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	munificent	munificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	conj	_	_
63	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
64	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	appos	_	_
65	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **issue** | past · passive |  | orders |  |  |  | for vast numbers of elephants and camels; gorgeous tents and flags and litters for the ladies and horses for the men *obl* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for number=Recipient |
| 4 | **prepare** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | without delay | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | the king and princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the king and princess *not said here* | a visit |  |  |  | to the great prince | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |

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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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