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title: But consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with the Princess’s illness by Prince Ali’s glass, and Prince Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple. Who acts: you, tapestry, glass. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 22

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But consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with the Princess’s illness by Prince Ali’s glass, and Prince Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple.

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**Who acts:** you, tapestry, glass · **What happens:** consider, be, not acquaint, not apply · **To what, where:** you, Prince Ahmed

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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 (you, tapestry, glass), 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:pg503:50:22
# text = But consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with the Princess’s illness by Prince Ali’s glass, and Prince Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would · perfect | tapestry |  |  |  |  | of little use | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **acquaint** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | Ali  Prince's glass | you |  |  |  | with the Princess's illness | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **apply** | past · perfect · passive |  | Prince Ahmed |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme apple=Destination |

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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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