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title: Then he informed the Sultan what those directions were, and by the r… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he informed the Sultan what those directions were, and by the relation of this his expedition let him know how well he had behaved himself. Who acts: majesty, expedition. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, with its depe
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 69

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Then he informed the Sultan what those directions were, and by the relation of this his expedition let him know how well he had behaved himself.

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**Who acts:** majesty, expedition · **What happens:** inform, let, know, behave · **To what, where:** Sultan, majesty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (majesty, expedition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:52:69
# text = Then he informed the Sultan what those directions were, and by the relation of this his expedition let him know how well he had behaved himself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nmod	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	behaved	behave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | majesty | the Sultan |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | majesty's expedition | majesty |  |  |  | by the relation of this | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | infinitive | majesty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **behave** | past · perfect | majesty | majesty |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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