--- title: When the magician had finished her speech, the Sultan asked his favo… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the magician had finished her speech, the Sultan asked his favorites if they had anything better to propose; and, finding them all silent, determined to follow the magician’s advice, as the most reasonable and most agreeable to his mild government. Who acts: magician, Sultan, favorites. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, Sultan, favorites), 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:pg503:52:18 # text = When the magician had finished her speech, the Sultan asked his favorites if they had anything better to propose; and, finding them all silent, determined to follow the magician’s advice, as the most reasonable and most agreeable to his mild government. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 favorites favorite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 propose propose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 obj _ _ 27 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 determined determined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 40 advmod _ _ 40 reasonable reasonable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 parataxis _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 43 advmod _ _ 43 agreeable agreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | the magician | magician's speech | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality speech=Eventuality | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Sultan | majesty's favorites | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favorite=Recipient | | 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | favorites *= favorite* | anything | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 4 | **propose** | to-infinitive | favorites *= favorite* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** | gerund | the magician *not said here* | favorites *= favorite* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme all=Attribute | | 6 | **follow** | to-infinitive | favorites *= favorite* *not said here* | the magician's advice | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 7 | **speak** | | magician | | | | | | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/19/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)