--- title: He presently considered that the Princess Nouronnihar could never be… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He presently considered that the Princess Nouronnihar could never be his and that the Fairy Paribanou excelled her infinitely in beauty, agreeableness, wit, and, as much as he could conjecture by the magnificence of the palace, in immense riches. Who acts: Prince, Princess Nouronnihar, Fairy Pariban --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/) / 58 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 58 He presently considered that the Princess Nouronnihar could never be his and that the Fairy Paribanou excelled her infinitely in beauty, agreeableness, wit, and, as much as he could conjecture by the magnificence of the palace, in immense riches. **Who acts:** Prince, Princess Nouronnihar, Fairy Paribanou · **What happens:** consider, not be, excel, conjecture · **To what, where:** Ahmed, beauty 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, Fairy Paribanou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:50:58 # text = He presently considered that the Princess Nouronnihar could never be his and that the Fairy Paribanou excelled her infinitely in beauty, agreeableness, wit, and, as much as he could conjecture by the magnificence of the palace, in immense riches. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 presently presently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Nouronnihar Nouronnihar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Paribanou Paribanou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 excelled excel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 infinitely infinitely ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 agreeableness agreeableness NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 wit wit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 conjecture conjecture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 magnificence magnificence NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consider** | past | Prince | | | | | presently *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is a** | could | the Princess Nouronnihar | Ahmed | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **excel** | past | the Fairy Paribanou | Paribanou's beauty and agreeableness and wit | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **conjecture** | could | Prince | | | | | by the magnificence of the palace | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/59/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/)