--- title: Prince Ali, Prince Houssain’s second brother, who designed to travel… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Ali, Prince Houssain’s second brother, who designed to travel into Persia, took the road, having three days after he parted with his brothers joined a caravan, and after four days’ travel arrived at Schiraz, which was the capital of the kingdom of Persia. 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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 (second brother, Ali, brothers, travel), 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:pg503:49:37 # text = Prince Ali, Prince Houssain’s second brother, who designed to travel into Persia, took the road, having three days after he parted with his brothers joined a caravan, and after four days’ travel arrived at Schiraz, which was the capital of the kingdom of Persia. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:desc _ _ 5 Houssain Houssain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 designed design VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 after after SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 parted part VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 with with SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 caravan caravan NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 after after SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’ 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 travel travel NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Schiraz Schiraz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **design** | past | Houssain Prince's second brother | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | Houssain Prince's second brother *not said here* | | | Persia | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into persia=Destination | | 3 | **take** | past | Ali Prince | the road | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | | 4 | **have** | gerund | Ali Prince *not said here* | | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **part** | past | Ali | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **join** | past | Houssain's brothers | a caravan | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient | | 7 | **arrive** | past | four days's travel | | | Schiraz | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | past | Schiraz | the capital | | | | of the kingdom of Persia | tree rules | | 9 | **travel** | | four days | | | | | | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/38/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)