--- title: The magician, at her arrival, saved the Sultan the trouble to tell h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The magician, at her arrival, saved the Sultan the trouble to tell her of the success of Prince Ahmed’s journey, which she had heard of before she came, and therefore was prepared with an infallible means, as she pretended. Who acts: magician, infallible, Prince Ahmed. 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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, infallible, Prince Ahmed), 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:pg503:52:71 # text = The magician, at her arrival, saved the Sultan the trouble to tell her of the success of Prince Ahmed’s journey, which she had heard of before she came, and therefore was prepared with an infallible means, as she pretended. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 success success NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’s 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 obl _ _ 30 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 38 with with SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 infallible infallible NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | past | the magician and magician's arrival | the trouble | the Sultan | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Beneficiary trouble=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the magician and magician's arrival *not said here* | | magician | | | of the success of Prince Ahmed's journey | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive | | Prince Ahmed's journey | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | past | magician | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **prepare** | past · passive | | | | | | therefore *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **mean** | present | a infallible | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **pretend** | past | magician | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **arrive** | | magician | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **journey** | | Prince Ahmed | | | | | | nom journey «act 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/72/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)