--- title: At this discourse of the crier the Prince of the Indies, considering… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At this discourse of the crier the Prince of the Indies, considering that the principal motive of his travel was to carry the Sultan, his father, home some singular rarity, thought that he could not meet with any which could give him more satisfaction. Who acts: principal motive, crier. 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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 (principal motive, crier), 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:pg503:49:27 # text = At this discourse of the crier the Prince of the Indies, considering that the principal motive of his travel was to carry the Sultan, his father, home some singular rarity, thought that he could not meet with any which could give him more satisfaction. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 discourse discourse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 crier crier NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Indies Indy PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 considering consider VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 motive motive NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 travel travel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 32 singular singular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 rarity rarity NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 35 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 40 obl _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 44 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 iobj _ _ 47 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 48 amod _ _ 48 satisfaction satisfaction NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consider** | gerund | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the principal motive of crier's travel | | | | | carry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | | | this discourse of the crier | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **meet** | could | crier | | | | | with any | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with any=Co-Agent | | 5 | **give** | could | | more satisfaction | crier | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient satisfaction=Theme | | 6 | **discourse** | | | the crier | | | | | nom discourse «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **travel** | | crier | | | | | | nom travel «act intransitive»: 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/28/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)