--- title: “Sir,” replied Prince Ahmed, “what your Majesty asks of me is part o… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Sir,” replied Prince Ahmed, “what your Majesty asks of me is part of the mystery I spoke to your Majesty of. Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Majesty. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/25/) [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/) / 25 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 25 “Sir,” replied Prince Ahmed, “what your Majesty asks of me is part of the mystery I spoke to your Majesty of. **Who acts:** Prince Ahmed, Majesty · **What happens:** reply, ask, be, speak · **To what, where:** part, mystery · **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 (Prince Ahmed, Majesty), 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:pg503:51:25 # text = “Sir,” replied Prince Ahmed, “what your Majesty asks of me is part of the mystery I spoke to your Majesty of. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 csubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Prince Ahmed | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | your Majesty | part | | | | of Prince Ahmed *= ahmed* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | part | | | | of the mystery | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Prince Ahmed *= ahmed* | the mystery *not said here* | | | | to your Majesty | tree rules | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/26/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)