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title: At last he returned the lady’s compliment by throwing himself at her… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he returned the lady’s compliment by throwing himself at her feet, and, rising up again, said to her: Who acts: Prince, lady. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 47

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At last he returned the lady’s compliment by throwing himself at her feet, and, rising up again, said to her:

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**Who acts:** Prince, lady · **What happens:** return, throw, rise up, say, compliment · **To what, where:** compliment, last, Prince, feet, lady · **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 (Prince, lady), 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:pg503:50:47
# text = At last he returned the lady’s compliment by throwing himself at her feet, and, rising up again, said to her:
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Prince | the lady's compliment |  | last |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compliment=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | Prince |  | lady's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 3 | **rise up** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prince *not said here* |  | lady |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 5 | **compliment** |  | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom compliment «communication 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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