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title: When Prince Ahmed had ate and drunk as much as he cared for, the Fai… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Prince Ahmed had ate and drunk as much as he cared for, the Fairy Paribanou carried him through all the apartments, where he saw diamonds, rubies, emeralds and all sorts of fine jewels, intermixed with pearls, agate, jasper, porphyry, and all sorts of the most precious marbles. Who acts: Prince
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 1

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When Prince Ahmed had ate and drunk as much as he cared for, the Fairy Paribanou carried him through all the apartments, where he saw diamonds, rubies, emeralds and all sorts of fine jewels, intermixed with pearls, agate, jasper, porphyry, and all sorts of the most precious marbles.

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**Who acts:** Prince Ahmed, Ahmed, Fairy Paribanou, Paribanou · **What happens:** eat, drink, care, carry, see, intermix · **To what, where:** sorts, Ahmed, apartments, diamonds, fine jewels, precious marbles

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ahmed, Ahmed, Fairy Paribanou, Paribanou), 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:pg503:51:1
# text = When Prince Ahmed had ate and drunk as much as he cared for, the Fairy Paribanou carried him through all the apartments, where he saw diamonds, rubies, emeralds and all sorts of fine jewels, intermixed with pearls, agate, jasper, porphyry, and all sorts of the most precious marbles.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	ate	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	intermixed	intermix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	agate	agate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	jasper	jasper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	porphyry	porphyry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	56	advmod	_	_
56	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	marbles	marble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | Prince Ahmed | all sorts of the precious marbles |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drink** | participle | Prince Ahmed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **care** | past | Ahmed |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **carry** | past | the Fairy Paribanou | Ahmed |  | all apartments |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | Paribanou | diamonds and rubies and emeralds and all sorts of fine jewels |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diamond=Stimulus |
| 6 | **intermix** | participle |  | fine jewels *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls and agate and jasper and porphyry | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with pearl=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | fine jewels |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | the precious marbles |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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