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title: Accordingly they all set out at the same gate of the city, each dres… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly they all set out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by an officer of confidence dressed like a slave, and all well mounted and equipped. Who acts: Princes, each. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 11

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Accordingly they all set out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by an officer of confidence dressed like a slave, and all well mounted and equipped.

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**Who acts:** Princes, each · **What happens:** set out, dress, attend, mount, equip · **To what, where:** same gate, city, merchant, confidence, all

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, 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 (Princes, each), 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:pg503:49:11
# text = Accordingly they all set out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by an officer of confidence dressed like a slave, and all well mounted and equipped.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | Princes *= prince* |  |  | the same gate of the city |  | accordingly, all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | participle | each | the city *not said here* |  |  |  | like a merchant | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  | a merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | by a officer of confidence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by officer=Theme |
| 4 | **dress** | participle |  | confidence *not said here* |  |  |  | like a slave | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mount** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  | well *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **equip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=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 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.

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