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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 55

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Prince Ali wanted no other proof to be persuaded that this perspective glass was the most valuable thing in the world, and believed that if he should neglect to purchase it he should never meet again with such another rarity.

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**Who acts:** Prince, perspective glass, sir · **What happens:** want, persuade, be, believe, neglect, not purchase · **To what, where:** other proof, valuable thing, world, glass

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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, perspective glass, sir), 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:pg503:49:55
# text = Prince Ali wanted no other proof to be persuaded that this perspective glass was the most valuable thing in the world, and believed that if he should neglect to purchase it he should never meet again with such another rarity.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	neglect	neglect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	rarity	rarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Prince | no other proof |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme |
| 2 | **persuade** | to-infinitive · passive | Prince *not said here* | no other proof *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this perspective glass | the valuable thing |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **neglect** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **purchase** | to-infinitive | sir *not said here* | glass |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **meet** | should | sir |  |  |  | again | with another such rarity | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rarity=Co-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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