--- title: At the end of six months Prince Ahmed, who always loved and honored… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the end of six months Prince Ahmed, who always loved and honored the Sultan his father, conceived a great desire to know how he was, and that desire could not be satisfied without his going to see; he told the Fairy of it, and desired she would give him leave. 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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), 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:pg503:51:12 # text = At the end of six months Prince Ahmed, who always loved and honored the Sultan his father, conceived a great desire to know how he was, and that desire could not be satisfied without his going to see; he told the Fairy of it, and desired she would give him leave. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 7 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 honored honor VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 20 conceived conceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 satisfied satisfy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 parataxis _ _ 37 without without SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 desired desire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 ccomp _ _ 55 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 iobj _ _ 56 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | Prince Ahmed | | | | | always *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **honor** | past | Prince Ahmed *not said here* | the Sultan | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **conceive** | past | | a great desire | | | at the end Prince Ahmed | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | | 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | past | Ahmed | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **satisfy** | could · passive | | that desire | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 7 | **go** | gerund | Ahmed | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | Ahmed *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ahmed | | the Fairy of desire | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient | | 10 | **desire** | past | Ahmed *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 11 | **give** | would | Fairy | | Ahmed | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **leave** | infinitive | Fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/13/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)