--- title: Though the Sultan of the Indies was very well persuaded that Prince… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Though the Sultan of the Indies was very well persuaded that Prince Ahmed’s natural disposition was good, yet he could not help being concerned at the discourse of the old sorceress, to whom, when she was taking her leave, he said: “I thank thee for the pains thou hast taken, and thy wholesome advic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/13/) [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/pg503/52/) / 13 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 13 Though the Sultan of the Indies was very well persuaded that Prince Ahmed’s natural disposition was good, yet he could not help being concerned at the discourse of the old sorceress, to whom, when she was taking her leave, he said: “I thank thee for the pains thou hast taken, and thy wholesome advice. **Who acts:** Sultan, natural disposition, Ahmed, magician, thou · **What happens:** be, not help, take, say, thank, discourse · **To what, where:** discourse, leave, thee, pains, old sorceress · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, natural disposition, Ahmed, magician), 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:pg503:52:13 # text = Though the Sultan of the Indies was very well persuaded that Prince Ahmed’s natural disposition was good, yet he could not help being concerned at the discourse of the old sorceress, to whom, when she was taking her leave, he said: “I thank thee for the pains thou hast taken, and thy wholesome advice. 1 Though though SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Indies Indy PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 10 persuaded persuade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 12 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 disposition disposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 25 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 cop _ _ 26 concerned concerned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 discourse discourse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sorceress sorceress NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 leave leave NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 48 “ " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 ccomp _ _ 51 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 50 obj _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 pains pain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 obl _ _ 55 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 57 nsubj _ _ 56 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 54 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 60 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 62 nmod:poss _ _ 61 wholesome wholesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Sultan of the Indies | | | | | persuade, well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Prince Ahmed's natural disposition | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **help** | could | Ahmed | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | Ahmed *not said here* | | | the discourse of the old sorceress | | concerned *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | past · progressive | magician | magician's leave | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ahmed | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | Ahmed | thee | | | | for the pains; thy wholesome advice *obl* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for pain=Attribute | | 8 | **take** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou | the pains *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | | 9 | **discourse** | | | the old sorceress | | | | | nom discourse «communication 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/14/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)