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title: The Sultan of the Indies was so far from thinking that Prince Ahmed… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan of the Indies was so far from thinking that Prince Ahmed could be capable of so pernicious a design as his favorites would make him believe that he said to them: “You are mistaken; my son loves me, and I am certain of his tenderness and fidelity, as I have given him no reason to be disgus
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 35

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The Sultan of the Indies was so far from thinking that Prince Ahmed could be capable of so pernicious a design as his favorites would make him believe that he said to them: “You are mistaken; my son loves me, and I am certain of his tenderness and fidelity, as I have given him no reason to be disgusted.”

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**Who acts:** Sultan, Prince Ahmed, thinking, Ahmed, son, favorites · **What happens:** think, be, make, believe, say, love · **To what, where:** Ahmed, favorites, reason, Son · **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 (Sultan, Prince Ahmed, thinking, 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:pg503:51:35
# text = The Sultan of the Indies was so far from thinking that Prince Ahmed could be capable of so pernicious a design as his favorites would make him believe that he said to them: “You are mistaken; my son loves me, and I am certain of his tenderness and fidelity, as I have given him no reason to be disgusted.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Indies	Indy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	csubj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	pernicious	pernicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	favorites	favorite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
43	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	iobj	_	_
60	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	61	det	_	_
61	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
63	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	aux:pass	_	_
64	disgusted	disgust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the Sultan of the Indies |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | could | Prince Ahmed |  |  |  |  | of a pernicious design; as Ahmed's favorites; capable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | would | thinking | Ahmed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** | infinitive | Ahmed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ahmed |  | favorites *= favorite* |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 6 | **love** *in a quote* | present | my son | the Sultan's favorites *= favorite* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Sultan's favorites *= favorite* |  |  |  |  | of Son's tenderness and fidelity; certain *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **give** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Sultan's favorites *= favorite* | no reason | Son |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reason=Theme |
| 9 | **disgust** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the Sultan's favorites *= favorite* *not said here* | no reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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