--- title: The crier, who took him for a merchant, replied: “If this price seem… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The crier, who took him for a merchant, replied: “If this price seems so extravagant to you, your amazement will be greater when I tell you I have orders to raise it to forty purses, and not to part with it under.” Who acts: crier, price, amazement, orders. 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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 (crier, price, amazement, orders), 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:pg503:49:24 # text = The crier, who took him for a merchant, replied: “If this price seems so extravagant to you, your amazement will be greater when I tell you I have orders to raise it to forty purses, and not to part with it under.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crier crier NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 If if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 extravagant extravagant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 amazement amazement NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 purses purse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nmod _ _ 48 under under ADP IN _ 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the crier | crier | | | | for a merchant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for merchant=Beneficiary | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the crier | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this price | | | | | extravagant *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | your amazement | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the crier *= crier* | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the crier *= crier* | orders | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **raise** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | orders *not said here* | price | | forty purses | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to purse=Destination | | 8 | **amaze** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/25/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)