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title: Another thing Prince Houssain particularly admired was the great num… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 21

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Another thing Prince Houssain particularly admired was the great number of rose-sellers who crowded the streets; for the Indians are so great lovers of that flower that no one will stir without a nosegay in his hand or a garland on his head; and the merchants keep them in pots in their shops, that the air is perfectly perfumed.

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**Who acts:** Prince, thing, rose sellers, one, merchants · **What happens:** admire, be, crowd, stir, keep, perfume · **To what, where:** thing, great number, streets, great lovers, flower, pots

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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 (Prince, thing, rose sellers, one), 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:pg503:49:21
# text = Another thing Prince Houssain particularly admired was the great number of rose-sellers who crowded the streets; for the Indians are so great lovers of that flower that no one will stir without a nosegay in his hand or a garland on his head; and the merchants keep them in pots in their shops, that the air is perfectly perfumed.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sellers	seller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	garland	garland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux:pass	_	_
63	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admire** | past | Prince | another thing *not said here* |  |  |  | particularly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | another thing | the great number |  |  |  | of rose sellers | tree rules |
| 3 | **crowd** | past | rose sellers | the streets |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent street=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | great lovers |  |  |  | for the Indians; of that flower | tree rules |
| 5 | **stir** | future | no one | that flower *not said here* |  |  |  | without a nosegay in China's hand or a garland on China's head | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus flower=Experiencer |
| 6 | **keep** | present | the merchants | streets *= street* |  | pots |  | in flowers's shops | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pot=Location |
| 7 | **perfume** | present · passive |  | the air |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

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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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