--- title: Several choruses of beautiful women richly dressed, and whose voices… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Several choruses of beautiful women richly dressed, and whose voices were ravishing, began a concert, accompanied with all sorts of the most harmonious instruments; and when they were set down at table the Fairy Paribanou took care to help Prince Ahmed to the most delicate meats, which she named as --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/) / 9 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 9 Several choruses of beautiful women richly dressed, and whose voices were ravishing, began a concert, accompanied with all sorts of the most harmonious instruments; and when they were set down at table the Fairy Paribanou took care to help Prince Ahmed to the most delicate meats, which she named as she invited him to eat of them, and which the Prince found to be so exquisitely nice that he commended them with exaggeration, and said that the entertainment far surpassed those of man. **Who acts:** voices, Several choruses, Fairy Paribanou, cloth, Ahmed, Prince · **What happens:** dress, ravish, begin, accompany, set down, take · **To what, where:** beautiful women, concert, voices, table, care, Prince Ahmed · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (voices, Several choruses, Fairy Paribanou, cloth), 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:pg503:51:9 # text = Several choruses of beautiful women richly dressed, and whose voices were ravishing, began a concert, accompanied with all sorts of the most harmonious instruments; and when they were set down at table the Fairy Paribanou took care to help Prince Ahmed to the most delicate meats, which she named as she invited him to eat of them, and which the Prince found to be so exquisitely nice that he commended them with exaggeration, and said that the entertainment far surpassed those of man. 1 Several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 choruses chorus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 richly richly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 ravishing ravish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 accompanied accompany VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:agent _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 26 advmod _ _ 26 harmonious harmonious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 34 down down ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 Paribanou Paribanou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 41 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 44 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 48 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 49 advmod _ _ 49 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 meats meat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 54 obj _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 parataxis _ _ 55 as as SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 56 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 advcl _ _ 58 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 obj _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 xcomp _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 65 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 68 obj _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 68 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 69 to to PART TO _ 73 mark _ _ 70 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 73 cop _ _ 71 so so ADV RB _ 73 advmod _ _ 72 exquisitely exquisitely ADV RB _ 73 advmod _ _ 73 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 ccomp _ _ 74 that that SCONJ IN _ 76 mark _ _ 75 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 76 nsubj _ _ 76 commended commend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 73 advcl _ _ 77 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 76 obj _ _ 78 with with ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 79 exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 80 , , PUNCT , _ 82 punct _ _ 81 and and CCONJ CC _ 82 cc _ _ 82 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 83 that that SCONJ IN _ 87 mark _ _ 84 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 85 det _ _ 85 entertainment entertainment NOUN NN Number=Sing 87 nsubj _ _ 86 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 87 advmod _ _ 87 surpassed surpass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 82 ccomp _ _ 88 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 87 obj _ _ 89 of of ADP IN _ 90 case _ _ 90 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 88 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 91 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | participle | | beautiful women *not said here* | | | | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ravish** | past · progressive | voices | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **begin** | past | Several choruses of beautiful women | a concert | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concert=Eventuality | | 4 | **accompany** | participle | | a concert *not said here* | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **set down** | past · passive | | voices *= voice* | | table | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at table=Destination | | 6 | **take** | past | the Fairy Paribanou | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | the Fairy Paribanou *not said here* | | Prince Ahmed | | | to the delicate meats | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Beneficiary | | 8 | **name** | past | cloth | the delicate meats | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 9 | **invite** | past | cloth | Ahmed | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 10 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ahmed *not said here* | | | | | of sorts *= sort* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source | | 11 | **find** | past | the Prince | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 12 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | exquisitely, nice *property* | tree rules | | 13 | **commend** | past | Prince | voices *= voice* | | | | with exaggeration | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 14 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy Paribanou *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 15 | **surpass** | past | the entertainment | those | | | | far *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | | 16 | **chorus** | | | beautiful women | | | | | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient | | 17 | **sort** | | | the harmonious instruments | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/10/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)