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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 19

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Then his horse, which was most finely caparisoned, and was as beautiful a creature as any in the Sultan of Indies’ stables, was led to him, and he mounted him with an extraordinary grace; and, after he had bid her a last adieu, set forward on his journey.

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**Who acts:** Ahmed · **What happens:** caparison, be, lead, mount, bid, set forward · **To what, where:** horse, Sultan, Ahmed, Fairy, journey

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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 (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:pg503:51:19
# text = Then his horse, which was most finely caparisoned, and was as beautiful a creature as any in the Sultan of Indies’ stables, was led to him, and he mounted him with an extraordinary grace; and, after he had bid her a last adieu, set forward on his journey.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	bid	bid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	adieu	adieu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
53	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caparison** | past · passive |  | Ahmed's horse |  |  | then | finely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the Sultan of Indies's stables |  | as a beautiful creature; as any | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | past · passive |  |  | Ahmed |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to he=Patient |
| 4 | **mount** | past | Ahmed | horse |  |  |  | with a extraordinary grace | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with grace=Instrument |
| 5 | **bid** | past · perfect | Ahmed | Fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **set forward** | participle | Ahmed *not said here* |  |  | Ahmed's journey |  | forward *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination |
| 7 | **journey** |  | Ahmed |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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