--- title: When he had gone a little distance from the castle gates he turned h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When he had gone a little distance from the castle gates he turned him about, and, perceiving two of the lions coming after him, he drew his sabre and prepared himself for defense. Who acts: Prince, two lions. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/61/) [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/) / 61 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 61 When he had gone a little distance from the castle gates he turned him about, and, perceiving two of the lions coming after him, he drew his sabre and prepared himself for defense. **Who acts:** Prince, two lions · **What happens:** go, turn, perceive, come, draw, prepare · **To what, where:** little distance, castle gates, Fountain, two lions, sabre, Prince 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 (Prince, two lions), 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:pg503:52:61 # text = When he had gone a little distance from the castle gates he turned him about, and, perceiving two of the lions coming after him, he drew his sabre and prepared himself for defense. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 perceiving perceive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 ccomp _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 24 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sabre sabre NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 prepared prepare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 defense defense NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Prince | a little distance | | the castle gates | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | past | Prince | Fountain | | | | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **perceive** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the two lions | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | gerund | the two lions *not said here* | | | | after Prince | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **draw** | past | Prince | Prince's sabre | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **prepare** | past | Prince *not said here* | Prince | | | | for defense | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Product for defense=Beneficiary | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/62/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)