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title: The Fairy Paribanou, who had her eyes fixed upon the pretended sick… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 57

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The Fairy Paribanou, who had her eyes fixed upon the pretended sick woman all the time that the Prince was talking to her, ordered two of her women who followed her to take her from the two men that held her, and carry her into an apartment of the palace, and take as much care of her as she would herself.

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**Who acts:** Fairy Paribanou, eyes, Prince, women, two men, Fairy · **What happens:** have, fix, pretend, talk, order, follow · **To what, where:** eyes, Fairy, two, apartment, much care

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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 (Fairy Paribanou, eyes, Prince, women), 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:pg503:51:57
# text = The Fairy Paribanou, who had her eyes fixed upon the pretended sick woman all the time that the Prince was talking to her, ordered two of her women who followed her to take her from the two men that held her, and carry her into an apartment of the palace, and take as much care of her as she would herself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
26	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
57	as	as	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nmod	_	_
62	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	_
65	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	64	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Fairy Paribanou | Fairy's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | participle | Fairy's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** | past · progressive | the Prince |  | Fairy |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **order** | past | the Fairy Paribanou | two of Fairy's women |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |
| 6 | **follow** | past | Fairy's women | Fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | Fairy's women *not said here* | Fairy |  |  |  | from the two men | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from man=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **hold** | past | the two men | Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 9 | **carry** | infinitive | Fairy's women *not said here* | Fairy |  | a apartment of the palace |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 10 | **take** | infinitive |  | much care of Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 11 | **care** |  | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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