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title: And, as you know I am very curious, and delight in everything that’s… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 8

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And, as you know I am very curious, and delight in everything that’s singular, I promise my niece in marriage to him that shall bring me the most extraordinary rarity; and for the purchase of the rarity you shall go in search after, and the expense of traveling, I will give you every one a sum of money.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, expense · **What happens:** know, be, promise, bring, go, give · **To what, where:** delight, niece, marriage, extraordinary rarity, me, search · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, I, expense), 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:pg503:49:8
# text = And, as you know I am very curious, and delight in everything that’s singular, I promise my niece in marriage to him that shall bring me the most extraordinary rarity; and for the purchase of the rarity you shall go in search after, and the expense of traveling, I will give you every one a sum of money.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	niece	niece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	rarity	rarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rarity	rarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	after	after	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	traveling	traveling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	iobj	_	_
60	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	det	_	_
61	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you | delight in everything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | singular *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I |  | my niece | marriage |  | to sultan | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent niece=Theme to he=Goal |
| 5 | **bring** | shall | I *not said here* | the extraordinary rarity | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rarity=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | shall | you |  |  | search |  | for the purchase of the rarity; after *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for purchase=Theme in search=Location |
| 7 | **give** | future | the expense of traveling | every one | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **purchase** |  |  | the rarity |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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