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title: Fairy Paribanou sat in this hall on a throne of massive gold, enrich… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairy Paribanou sat in this hall on a throne of massive gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly clothed. Who acts: Fairy, extraordinary size. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 8

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Fairy Paribanou sat in this hall on a throne of massive gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly clothed.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, extraordinary size · **What happens:** sit, enrich, attend, clothe, pearl · **To what, where:** pearls, hall, massive gold, all

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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 (Fairy, extraordinary size), 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:pg503:52:8
# text = Fairy Paribanou sat in this hall on a throne of massive gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly clothed.
1	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	enriched	enrich	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Fairy | pearls of a extraordinary size |  | this hall |  | on a throne of massive gold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 2 | **enrich** | participle |  | massive gold *not said here* |  |  |  | with diamonds and rubies | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a great number of beautiful fairies; on each hand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hand=Theme |
| 4 | **clothe** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **pearl** |  | a extraordinary size |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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