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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 57

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As the Fairy Paribanou pronounced these last words with a different tone, and looked, at the same time, tenderly upon Prince Ahmed, with a modest blush on her cheeks, it was no hard matter for the Prince to comprehend what happiness she meant.

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**Who acts:** Fairy Paribanou, it, happiness · **What happens:** pronounce, look, be, comprehend, mean · **To what, where:** last words, hard matter

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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 (Fairy Paribanou, it, happiness), 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:pg503:50:57
# text = As the Fairy Paribanou pronounced these last words with a different tone, and looked, at the same time, tenderly upon Prince Ahmed, with a modest blush on her cheeks, it was no hard matter for the Prince to comprehend what happiness she meant.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	blush	blush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
38	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
45	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	48	obj	_	_
46	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | past | the Fairy Paribanou | this last words |  |  |  | with a different tone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme with tone=Manner |
| 2 | **look** | past | the Fairy Paribanou *not said here* |  |  |  | time | with a modest blush on Paribanou's cheeks | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | it | no hard matter |  |  |  | for the Prince | tree rules |
| 4 | **comprehend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **mean** | past | happiness |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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