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title: She appointed twenty gentlemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She appointed twenty gentlemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him. Who acts: Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, 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 3, sentence 17

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She appointed twenty gentlemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him.

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**Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** appoint, mount, equip, attend · **To what, where:** twenty gentlemen, Ahmed

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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 (Fairy), 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:pg503:51:17
# text = She appointed twenty gentlemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	attend	attend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | past | Fairy | twenty gentlemen |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | participle | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **equip** | participle | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **attend** | to-infinitive |  |  | Ahmed |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal |

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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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