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title: The Sultan of the Indies, having heard, without interrupting them, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan of the Indies, having heard, without interrupting them, all that the Princes could represent further about their rarities, and being well informed of what had happened in relation to the Princess Nouronnihar’s cure, remained some time silent, as if he were thinking on what answer he shoul
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 17

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The Sultan of the Indies, having heard, without interrupting them, all that the Princes could represent further about their rarities, and being well informed of what had happened in relation to the Princess Nouronnihar’s cure, remained some time silent, as if he were thinking on what answer he should make.

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**Who acts:** Princes, Prince · **What happens:** hear, interrupt, represent, inform, happen, remain · **To what, where:** Sultan, women, relation, answer · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, Prince), 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:pg503:50:17
# text = The Sultan of the Indies, having heard, without interrupting them, all that the Princes could represent further about their rarities, and being well informed of what had happened in relation to the Princess Nouronnihar’s cure, remained some time silent, as if he were thinking on what answer he should make.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	further	further	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rarities	rarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	ccomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	nsubj	_	_
54	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | the Sultan of the Indies |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **interrupt** | gerund |  | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **represent** | could | the Princes |  |  |  |  | about women's rarities; further *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **inform** *speech: other* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  | relation |  | to the Princess Nouronnihar's cure | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in relation=Location |
| 6 | **remain** | past |  |  |  |  | time | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Prince |  |  |  |  | on answer | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on answer=Topic |
| 8 | **make** | should | Prince | answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |

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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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