--- title: The magician, seeing him coming, followed him with her eyes, till on… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The magician, seeing him coming, followed him with her eyes, till on a sudden she lost sight of him and his attendants. Who acts: magician, discourse. 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 pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/42/) [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/) / 42 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 42 The magician, seeing him coming, followed him with her eyes, till on a sudden she lost sight of him and his attendants. **Who acts:** magician, discourse · **What happens:** see, come, follow, lose, sight · **To what, where:** magician, Prince, sight 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, discourse), 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:pg503:51:42 # text = The magician, seeing him coming, followed him with her eyes, till on a sudden she lost sight of him and his attendants. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 till till SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | the magician *not said here* | magician | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 2 | **come** | gerund | the magician *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | past | the magician | Prince | | | | with discourse's eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | past | discourse | sight of Prince | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | | 5 | **sight** | | | Prince | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/43/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)