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title: At last some viziers, the Sultan’s favorites, who judged of Prince A… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last some viziers, the Sultan’s favorites, who judged of Prince Ahmed’s grandeur and power by the figure he cut, made the Sultan jealous of his son, saying it was to be feared he might inveigle himself into the people’s favor and dethrone him. Who acts: favorites, Prince, people. A sentence of «T
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 34

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At last some viziers, the Sultan’s favorites, who judged of Prince Ahmed’s grandeur and power by the figure he cut, made the Sultan jealous of his son, saying it was to be feared he might inveigle himself into the people’s favor and dethrone him.

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**Who acts:** favorites, Prince, people · **What happens:** judge, cut, make, say, fear, inveigle · **To what, where:** figure, Sultan, Prince, favor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (favorites, Prince, people), 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:pg503:51:34
# text = At last some viziers, the Sultan’s favorites, who judged of Prince Ahmed’s grandeur and power by the figure he cut, made the Sultan jealous of his son, saying it was to be feared he might inveigle himself into the people’s favor and dethrone him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	viziers	vizier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	favorites	favorite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	ccomp	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	inveigle	inveigle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	dethrone	dethrone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | past | the Sultan's favorites |  |  |  |  | of Prince Ahmed's grandeur by the figure and power | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of grandeur=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | Prince | the figure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product |
| 3 | **make** | past | the Sultan's favorites *not said here* | the Sultan |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sultan=Product |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Sultan's favorites *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fear** | past · passive |  | Sultan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **inveigle** | might | Prince | Prince |  |  |  | into the people's favor *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into favor=Result |
| 7 | **dethrone** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **favor** |  | the people |  |  |  |  |  | nom favor «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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