--- title: At these words the magician, who pretended sickness only to know whe… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At these words the magician, who pretended sickness only to know where the Prince lived and what he did, refused not the charitable offer he made her, and that her actions might correspond with her words she made many pretended vain endeavors to get up. Who acts: magician, Prince, actions, action. 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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, actions, action), 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:pg503:51:52 # text = At these words the magician, who pretended sickness only to know where the Prince lived and what he did, refused not the charitable offer he made her, and that her actions might correspond with her words she made many pretended vain endeavors to get up. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 conj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 charitable charitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 correspond correspond VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 43 pretended pretend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 44 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 endeavors endeavor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | past | the magician | sickness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | the magician *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **live** | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **refuse** | past | the magician *not said here* | the charitable offer | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | past | Prince | leave | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | | 7 | **correspond** | might | leave's actions | | | | | with action's words | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent | | 8 | **make** | past | action | many pretended vain endeavors | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent endeavor=Product | | 9 | **pretend** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **get up** | to-infinitive | action *not said here* | many pretended vain endeavors *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **act** | | leave | | | | | | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 12 | **word** | | action | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/53/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)