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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 41

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The next morning Prince Ahmed set out by daybreak, without taking leave either of the Sultan or any of his Court, according to custom.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** set out, take, leave, accord · **To what, where:** Sultan

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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 (Prince), 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:pg503:51:41
# text = The next morning Prince Ahmed set out by daybreak, without taking leave either of the Sultan or any of his Court, according to custom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	case	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | Prince |  |  |  | morning | by daybreak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | either Sultan or Prince's Court |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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