--- title: Next day, at a sign from the Vizier, she went up to the foot of the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Next day, at a sign from the Vizier, she went up to the foot of the throne and remained kneeling till the Sultan said to her: “Rise, good woman, and tell me what you want.” Who acts: woman, Sultan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Sultan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:12:76 # text = Next day, at a sign from the Vizier, she went up to the foot of the throne and remained kneeling till the Sultan said to her: “Rise, good woman, and tell me what you want.” 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Vizier Vizier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 kneeling kneeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Rise rise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 41 obj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | woman | | | | day | to the foot of the throne | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **remain** | past | woman *not said here* | kneeling | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kneeling=Attribute | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Sultan | | woman | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **rise** *in a quote* | infinitive | | good woman | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | the Sultan *= sultan* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **want** *in a quote* | present | woman | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/77/) - ↑ back to [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/)