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title: Upon which Prince Ahmed told the crier he would give him forty purse… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon which Prince Ahmed told the crier he would give him forty purses if he cured the sick person. Who acts: Prince, crier. 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 clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 6

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Upon which Prince Ahmed told the crier he would give him forty purses if he cured the sick person.

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**Who acts:** Prince, crier · **What happens:** tell, give, cure · **To what, where:** crier, forty purses, Prince, sick person · **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, crier), 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:pg503:50:6
# text = Upon which Prince Ahmed told the crier he would give him forty purses if he cured the sick person.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cured	cure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Prince |  | the crier |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent crier=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | would | crier | forty purses | Prince |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient purse=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | crier | the sick person |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer person=Source |

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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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