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title: And if he cries the ivory perspective glass at thirty purses it must… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And if he cries the ivory perspective glass at thirty purses it must be worth as much or more, on some account or other. Who acts: crier, glass. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 44

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And if he cries the ivory perspective glass at thirty purses it must be worth as much or more, on some account or other.

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**Who acts:** crier, glass · **What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** perspective glass, thirty purses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (crier, glass), 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:pg503:49:44
# text = And if he cries the ivory perspective glass at thirty purses it must be worth as much or more, on some account or other.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | crier | the perspective glass |  | thirty purses |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | must | glass |  |  |  |  | as much; worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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