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description: And when he came into the outward court of the Fairy, without dismounting himself, he sent to tell her he wanted to speak with her. Who acts: Prince. 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 pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 54

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And when he came into the outward court of the Fairy, without dismounting himself, he sent to tell her he wanted to speak with her.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** come, dismount, send, tell, want, speak · **To what, where:** outward court, Prince, Fairy · **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 (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:pg503:51:54
# text = And when he came into the outward court of the Fairy, without dismounting himself, he sent to tell her he wanted to speak with her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	dismounting	dismount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Prince |  |  | the outward court of the Fairy |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dismount** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **send** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  | Fairy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **want** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Fairy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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