--- title: As he found them positively obstinate, he sent for them all together… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As he found them positively obstinate, he sent for them all together, and said to them: “Children, since for your good and quiet I have not been able to persuade you no longer to aspire to the Princess, your cousin, I think it would not be amiss if every one traveled separately into different countr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/) / 7 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 7 As he found them positively obstinate, he sent for them all together, and said to them: “Children, since for your good and quiet I have not been able to persuade you no longer to aspire to the Princess, your cousin, I think it would not be amiss if every one traveled separately into different countries, so that you might not meet each other. **Who acts:** sultan, difficulty, one, Princes · **What happens:** find, send, say, not be, persuade, aspire · **To what, where:** Princes, Children, different countries, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (sultan, difficulty, one, Princes), 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:pg503:49:7 # text = As he found them positively obstinate, he sent for them all together, and said to them: “Children, since for your good and quiet I have not been able to persuade you no longer to aspire to the Princess, your cousin, I think it would not be amiss if every one traveled separately into different countries, so that you might not meet each other. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 positively positively ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 obstinate obstinate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 all all ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 since since SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 cop _ _ 33 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 persuade persuade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 no no ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 aspire aspire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 51 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 52 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 54 advmod _ _ 53 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 cop _ _ 54 amiss amiss ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 ccomp _ _ 55 if if SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 56 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 57 det _ _ 57 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 58 traveled travel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 advcl _ _ 59 separately separately ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 60 into into ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 64 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 69 mark _ _ 65 that that SCONJ IN _ 64 fixed _ _ 66 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 67 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 69 aux _ _ 68 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 69 advmod _ _ 69 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 parataxis _ _ 70 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 69 obj _ _ 71 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | sultan | Princes *= prince* | | | | obstinate *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 2 | **send** | past | sultan | | | | | for Princes *= prince*; together *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sultan *not said here* | Children | Princes *= prince* | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | sultan | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **persuade** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | sultan *not said here* | Princes *= prince* | | | | long *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 6 | **aspire** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | sultan *not said here* | | | | | to the Princess | tree rules | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | sultan | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would | difficulty | | | | | amiss *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **travel** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | participle | every one | | | different countries | | separately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination | | 10 | **not** **meet** *in a quote* | might | Princes *= prince* | each | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/8/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/49/)