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title: The magician, who saw it was in vain for her to search any farther,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The magician, who saw it was in vain for her to search any farther, was obliged to be satisfied with the discovery she had made, and returned to give the Sultan an account. Who acts: magician, Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribano
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 45

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The magician, who saw it was in vain for her to search any farther, was obliged to be satisfied with the discovery she had made, and returned to give the Sultan an account.

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**Who acts:** magician, Fairy · **What happens:** see, be, search, oblige, make, return · **To what, where:** magician, discovery, account, Sultan · **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 (magician, Fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:3759`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:51:45
# text = The magician, who saw it was in vain for her to search any farther, was obliged to be satisfied with the discovery she had made, and returned to give the Sultan an account.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	expl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
14	any	any	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	iobj	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the magician |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **search** | to-infinitive | Fairy |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the magician |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the discovery; satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past · perfect | Fairy | the discovery *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discovery=Product |
| 7 | **return** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a account | the Sultan |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient account=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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