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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 27

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The Sultan, instead of answering him, clapped his hands before his eyes to avoid the sight of so terrible an object; at which uncivil and rude reception Schaibar was so much provoked, after he had given him the trouble to come so far, that he instantly lifted up his iron bar and killed him before Prince Ahmed could intercede in his behalf.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, Prince Ahmed · **What happens:** answer, clap, avoid, provoke, give, come · **To what, where:** Sultan, hands, sight, uncivil, Schaibar, iron bar

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, Prince Ahmed), 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:pg503:53:27
# text = The Sultan, instead of answering him, clapped his hands before his eyes to avoid the sight of so terrible an object; at which uncivil and rude reception Schaibar was so much provoked, after he had given him the trouble to come so far, that he instantly lifted up his iron bar and killed him before Prince Ahmed could intercede in his behalf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	6	mark	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
27	uncivil	uncivil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	Schaibar	Schaibar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	much	much	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	provoked	provoke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
53	up	up	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
61	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	intercede	intercede	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	advcl	_	_
65	in	in	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Sultan *not said here* |  | Sultan |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 2 | **clap** | past | the Sultan | Sultan's hands |  |  | before Sultan's eyes |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 3 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* | the sight of a terrible object |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sight=Location |
| 4 | **provoke** | past · passive | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  | which uncivil and rude reception |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | Sultan | Schaibar |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lift up** | past | Sultan | Sultan's iron bar |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme |
| 8 | **kill** | past | Sultan *not said here* | Schaibar |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 9 | **intercede** | could | Prince Ahmed |  |  | Sultan's behalf |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **sight** |  |  | a terrible object |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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