--- title: As soon as the caravan was ready to set out, the Prince joined them,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the caravan was ready to set out, the Prince joined them, and arrived happily without any accident or trouble, otherwise than the length of the journey and fatigue of traveling, at the place of rendezvous, where he found Prince Houssain, and both waited for Prince Ahmed. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caravan, Prince, sir, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:49:58 # text = As soon as the caravan was ready to set out, the Prince joined them, and arrived happily without any accident or trouble, otherwise than the length of the journey and fatigue of traveling, at the place of rendezvous, where he found Prince Houssain, and both waited for Prince Ahmed. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 caravan caravan NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 happily happily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 traveling traveling NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 rendezvous rendezvous NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 46 advmod _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:desc _ _ 48 Houssain Houssain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 52 nsubj _ _ 52 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 55 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the caravan | | | | | ready, soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **set out** | to-infinitive | the caravan *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **join** | past | the Prince | thereabouts *= thereabout* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **arrive** | past | the Prince *not said here* | | | the place of rendezvous | | without any accident or trouble and the length of the journey and fatigue of traveling; happily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | sir | Houssain Prince | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent houssain=Topic | | 6 | **wait** | past | both | | | | | for Prince Ahmed | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fatigue** | | | traveling | | | | | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/59/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)