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title: When all was ready Prince Ahmed took his leave of the Fairy, embrace… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When all was ready Prince Ahmed took his leave of the Fairy, embraced her, and renewed his promise to return soon. Who acts: ready Prince Ahmed, Ahmed. 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 prag
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 18

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When all was ready Prince Ahmed took his leave of the Fairy, embraced her, and renewed his promise to return soon.

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**Who acts:** ready Prince Ahmed, Ahmed · **What happens:** be, take, embrace, renew, return, promise · **To what, where:** ready Prince Ahmed, leave, Fairy, promise

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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 (ready Prince Ahmed, Ahmed), 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:pg503:51:18
# text = When all was ready Prince Ahmed took his leave of the Fairy, embraced her, and renewed his promise to return soon.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	renewed	renew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | all ready Prince Ahmed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | all ready Prince Ahmed | Ahmed's leave of the Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 3 | **embrace** | past |  | Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **renew** | past |  | Ahmed's promise |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent promise=Patient |
| 5 | **return** | to-infinitive |  | Ahmed's promise *not said here* |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **promise** |  | Ahmed |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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