--- title: He went and lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants; and, h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He went and lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants; and, having learned that there were four principal divisions where merchants of all sorts sold their commodities, and kept shops, and in the midst of which stood the castle, or rather the King’s palace, he went to one of these divisions t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/) / 16 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 16 He went and lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants; and, having learned that there were four principal divisions where merchants of all sorts sold their commodities, and kept shops, and in the midst of which stood the castle, or rather the King’s palace, he went to one of these divisions the next day. **Who acts:** Houssain, four principal divisions, merchants · **What happens:** go, lodge, appoint, learn, be, sell · **To what, where:** khan, commodities, shops, castle, midst, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Houssain, four principal divisions, merchants), 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:pg503:49:16 # text = He went and lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants; and, having learned that there were four principal divisions where merchants of all sorts sold their commodities, and kept shops, and in the midst of which stood the castle, or rather the King’s palace, he went to one of these divisions the next day. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 lodged lodge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 khan khan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 aux _ _ 16 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 divisions division NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 24 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 commodities commodity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 34 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 47 rather rather ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’s 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 54 obl _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 59 det _ _ 59 divisions division NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nmod _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 61 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Houssain | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lodge** | past | Houssain *not said here* | | | a khan | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at khan=Location | | 3 | **appoint** | participle | | a khan *not said here* | | | | for foreign merchants | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **learn** | gerund · perfect | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **be** | past | four principal divisions | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sell** | past | merchants of all sorts | divisions's commodities | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commodity=Theme | | 7 | **keep** | participle | | shops | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | | 8 | **stand** | past | | the castle | | the midst | | the King's palace *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in midst=Destination | | 9 | **go** | past | Houssain | | one of this divisions the next day | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial\_Location | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/17/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)