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title: Prince Ahmed, too, did not come to Prince Ali’s and the Princess Nou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ahmed, too, did not come to Prince Ali’s and the Princess Nouronnihar’s wedding any more than his brother Houssain, but did not renounce the world as he had done. Who acts: Prince, Princess Nouronnihar. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 33

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Prince Ahmed, too, did not come to Prince Ali’s and the Princess Nouronnihar’s wedding any more than his brother Houssain, but did not renounce the world as he had done.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Princess Nouronnihar · **What happens:** not come, not renounce, do, wed · **To what, where:** Ali, world

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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 (Prince, Princess Nouronnihar), 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:pg503:50:33
# text = Prince Ahmed, too, did not come to Prince Ali’s and the Princess Nouronnihar’s wedding any more than his brother Houssain, but did not renounce the world as he had done.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	any	any	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	renounce	renounce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | past · do-support |  |  |  | Ali  Prince and the Princess Nouronnihar's wedding |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ali=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **renounce** | past · do-support |  | the world |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wed** |  | the Princess Nouronnihar |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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