--- title: The magician left the Sultan, and, knowing the place where Prince Ah… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The magician left the Sultan, and, knowing the place where Prince Ahmed found his arrow, went immediately thither, and hid herself near the rocks, so that nobody could see her. Who acts: magician, Prince, knowing, nobody. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/40/) [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/) / 40 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 40 The magician left the Sultan, and, knowing the place where Prince Ahmed found his arrow, went immediately thither, and hid herself near the rocks, so that nobody could see her. **Who acts:** magician, Prince, knowing, nobody · **What happens:** leave, know, find, go, hide, see · **To what, where:** Sultan, place, arrow, discourse, rocks 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 (magician, Prince, knowing, nobody), 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:pg503:51:40 # text = The magician left the Sultan, and, knowing the place where Prince Ahmed found his arrow, went immediately thither, and hid herself near the rocks, so that nobody could see her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 13 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ _ 15 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 thither thither ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 near near ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 34 mark _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | the magician | the Sultan | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | | 2 | **know** | gerund | | the place | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | | 3 | **find** | past | Prince | magician's arrow | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Topic | | 4 | **go** | past | knowing | | | | | immediately, thither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hide** | past | | discourse | | the rocks | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient near rock=Location | | 6 | **see** | could | nobody | discourse | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/41/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)