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title: Prince Ali accepted the merchant’s obliging offer, and presently aft… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ali accepted the merchant’s obliging offer, and presently afterward the crier passed by. Who acts: Prince, merchant. 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 of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 46

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Prince Ali accepted the merchant’s obliging offer, and presently afterward the crier passed by.

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**Who acts:** Prince, merchant · **What happens:** accept, oblige, pass by, offer · **To what, where:** obliging offer, crier

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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 (Prince, merchant), 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:pg503:49:46
# text = Prince Ali accepted the merchant’s obliging offer, and presently afterward the crier passed by.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	obliging	oblige	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	afterward	afterward	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | Prince | the merchant's obliging offer |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme |
| 2 | **oblige** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass by** | participle |  | the crier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **offer** |  | the merchant |  |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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