--- title: The Sultan took upon himself the care of his daughter’s education, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Sultan took upon himself the care of his daughter’s education, and brought her up in his palace with the three Princes, proposing to marry her when she arrived at a proper age, and to contract an alliance with some neighboring prince by that means. Who acts: Sultan, daughter, that, education. 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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 (Sultan, daughter, that, education), 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:pg503:49:4 # text = The Sultan took upon himself the care of his daughter’s education, and brought her up in his palace with the three Princes, proposing to marry her when she arrived at a proper age, and to contract an alliance with some neighboring prince by that means. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’s 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 education education NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 in in 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 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 proposing propose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 contract contract VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 alliance alliance NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 46 det _ _ 45 neighboring neighbor VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 amod _ _ 46 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 47 by by SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 nsubj _ _ 49 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the Sultan | the care of sultan's daughter's education | | | | upon sultan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 2 | **bring up** | past | the Sultan *not said here* | daughter | | sultan's palace with the three Princes | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 3 | **propose** | gerund | the Sultan *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **marry** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | daughter | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 5 | **arrive** | past | daughter | | | | at a proper age | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **contract** | to-infinitive | | a alliance | | | | with some neighboring prince | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent alliance=Patient with prince=Instrument | | 7 | **neighbor** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mean** | present | that | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **care** | | sultan's daughter's education | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 10 | **educate** | | sultan's daughter | | | | | | nom education «act 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/5/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)