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title: He therefore took the crier with him to the khan where he lodged, an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He therefore took the crier with him to the khan where he lodged, and counted him out the money, and received the perspective glass. Who acts: sir. 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 pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 56

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He therefore took the crier with him to the khan where he lodged, and counted him out the money, and received the perspective glass.

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**Who acts:** sir · **What happens:** take, lodge, count out, receive · **To what, where:** crier, khan, sir, perspective 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 (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:pg503:49:56
# text = He therefore took the crier with him to the khan where he lodged, and counted him out the money, and received the perspective glass.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	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	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	khan	khan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | sir | the crier |  | the khan |  | with crier; therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crier=Theme to khan=Destination |
| 2 | **lodge** | past | sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **count out** | past | sir *not said here* | sir |  |  |  | the money *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | past | sir *not said here* | the perspective glass |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme |

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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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