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title: This discourse of the Fairy’s did not in the least frighten Prince A… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This discourse of the Fairy’s did not in the least frighten Prince Ahmed. Who acts: 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 61

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This discourse of the Fairy’s did not in the least frighten Prince Ahmed.

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**Who acts:** discourse · **What happens:** not frighten, discourse · **To what, where:** Prince Ahmed, Fairy

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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 (discourse), 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:pg503:51:61
# text = This discourse of the Fairy’s did not in the least frighten Prince Ahmed.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nsubj	_	_
12	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **frighten** | past · do-support | this discourse of the Fairy | Prince Ahmed |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ahmed=Experiencer |
| 2 | **discourse** |  |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | nom discourse «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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