--- title: The Sultan received and embraced him with great joy, complaining at… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Sultan received and embraced him with great joy, complaining at the same time, with a fatherly tenderness, of the affliction his long absence had been to him, which he said was the more grievous for that, fortune having decided in favor of Prince Ali his brother, he was afraid he might have comm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/) / 22 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 22 The Sultan received and embraced him with great joy, complaining at the same time, with a fatherly tenderness, of the affliction his long absence had been to him, which he said was the more grievous for that, fortune having decided in favor of Prince Ali his brother, he was afraid he might have committed some rash action. **Who acts:** Sultan, Ahmed, brother · **What happens:** receive, embrace, complain, be, say, decide · **To what, where:** Ahmed, long absence, fortune, favor, rash action, Ali · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sultan, Ahmed, brother), 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:pg503:51:22 # text = The Sultan received and embraced him with great joy, complaining at the same time, with a fatherly tenderness, of the affliction his long absence had been to him, which he said was the more grievous for that, fortune having decided in favor of Prince Ali his brother, he was afraid he might have committed some rash action. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 embraced embrace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 complaining complain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 fatherly fatherly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 tenderness tenderness NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 affliction affliction NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 cop _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 39 grievous grievous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 ccomp _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 aux _ _ 45 decided decide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 parataxis _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 favor favor NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod:desc _ _ 50 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 56 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ _ 57 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 58 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 59 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 60 aux _ _ 60 committed commit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 56 ccomp _ _ 61 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 63 det _ _ 62 rash rash NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 compound _ _ 63 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past | the Sultan | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **embrace** | past | the Sultan *not said here* | Ahmed | | | | with great joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | the Sultan *not said here* | | | | time | with a fatherly tenderness; of the affliction | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past · perfect | | | | | | to Ahmed | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ahmed | Ahmed's long absence | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | for that; grievous *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **decide** | gerund · perfect · passive | Ahmed's brother | fortune | | favor of Ali Prince | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | | 8 | **is** | past | Ahmed | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **commit** | might · perfect | Ahmed | some rash action | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme | | 10 | **absent** | | Ahmed | | | | | | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **favor** | | | Ali Prince | | | | | nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/23/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)