--- title: A great many officers came to attend the Prince while he dismounted… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: A great many officers came to attend the Prince while he dismounted his horse, and afterward conducted him into the Sultan’s apartment, who was at that time surrounded with his favorites. Who acts: great many officers, Prince, apartment. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/64/) [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/) / 64 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 64 A great many officers came to attend the Prince while he dismounted his horse, and afterward conducted him into the Sultan’s apartment, who was at that time surrounded with his favorites. **Who acts:** great many officers, Prince, apartment · **What happens:** come, attend, dismount, conduct, be, surround · **To what, where:** Prince, horse, apartment, time 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 (great many officers, Prince, apartment), 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:pg503:52:64 # text = A great many officers came to attend the Prince while he dismounted his horse, and afterward conducted him into the Sultan’s apartment, who was at that time surrounded with his favorites. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 dismounted dismount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 afterward afterward ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 apartment apartment NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 31 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 favorites favorite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | a great many officers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **attend** | to-infinitive | a great many officers *not said here* | | the Prince | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prince=Goal | | 3 | **dismount** | past | Prince | Prince's horse | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 4 | **conduct** | past | a great many officers *not said here* | Prince | | the Sultan's apartment | | afterward *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into apartment=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | the Sultan's apartment | | | | at that time | | tree rules | | 6 | **surround** | participle | | that time *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/65/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)