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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 8

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In short, the experiment succeeded, and the Prince, after he had counted out to the crier forty purses, and he had delivered the apple to him, waited patiently for the first caravan that should return to the Indies, and arrived in perfect health at the inn where the Princes Houssain and Ali waited for him.

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**Who acts:** experiment, crier, first caravan, Princes · **What happens:** succeed, count out, deliver, wait, return, arrive · **To what, where:** short, Prince, apple, perfect health

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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 (experiment, crier, first caravan, Princes), 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:pg503:50:8
# text = In short, the experiment succeeded, and the Prince, after he had counted out to the crier forty purses, and he had delivered the apple to him, waited patiently for the first caravan that should return to the Indies, and arrived in perfect health at the inn where the Princes Houssain and Ali waited for him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	experiment	experiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
33	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
37	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
53	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	59	advmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
56	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
59	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | the experiment |  |  | short |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in short=Eventuality |
| 2 | **count out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Prince |  |  |  | to the crier and forty purses | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme to crier=be' |
| 3 | **deliver** | past · perfect | crier | the apple | Prince |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to he=Destination |
| 4 | **wait** | past | the experiment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the first caravan; patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **return** | should | the first caravan |  |  |  |  | to the Indies *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to indy=Result |
| 6 | **arrive** | past | the experiment *not said here* |  |  | perfect health |  | at the inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **wait** | past | the Princes |  |  |  |  | for crier | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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