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title: Among all the criers who passed backward and forward with several so… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Among all the criers who passed backward and forward with several sorts of goods, offering to sell them, he was not a little surprised to see one who held an ivory telescope in his hand of about a foot in length and the thickness of a man’s thumb, and cried it at thirty purses. Who acts: criers, cri
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 40

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Among all the criers who passed backward and forward with several sorts of goods, offering to sell them, he was not a little surprised to see one who held an ivory telescope in his hand of about a foot in length and the thickness of a man’s thumb, and cried it at thirty purses.

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**Who acts:** criers, crier · **What happens:** pass, offer, sell, not be, see, hold · **To what, where:** goods, one, ivory telescope, hand, telescope, thirty purses

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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 (criers, crier), 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:pg503:49:40
# text = Among all the criers who passed backward and forward with several sorts of goods, offering to sell them, he was not a little surprised to see one who held an ivory telescope in his hand of about a foot in length and the thickness of a man’s thumb, and cried it at thirty purses.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	criers	crier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
7	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	about	about	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | all criers |  |  |  |  | with several sorts of goods; backward *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | gerund | all criers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all criers *not said here* | goods |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | crier |  |  |  |  | among all criers; a little *obl:unmarked*; surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | crier *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hold** | past |  | a ivory telescope |  | crier's hand of a foot in length and the thickness of a man's thumb |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent telescope=Theme in hand=Location |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | crier *not said here* | telescope |  | thirty purses |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | goods |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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