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title: “Don’t affright yourself, Prince,” replied the Fairy; “you ran a ris… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Don’t affright yourself, Prince,” replied the Fairy; “you ran a risk in fetching the Water of the Fountain of Lions for your father, but there’s no danger in finding out this man, who is my brother Schaibar, but is so far from being like me, though we both had the same father, that he is of so viol
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 5

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“Don’t affright yourself, Prince,” replied the Fairy; “you ran a risk in fetching the Water of the Fountain of Lions for your father, but there’s no danger in finding out this man, who is my brother Schaibar, but is so far from being like me, though we both had the same father, that he is of so violent a nature that nothing can prevent his giving cruel marks of his resentment for a slight offense; yet, on the other hand, is so good as to oblige anyone in whatever they desire.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, you, risk, danger, man, we · **What happens:** not affright, reply, run, fetch, find out, be · **To what, where:** yourself, risk, Water, man, brother, same father · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, you, risk, danger), 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:pg503:53:5
# text = “Don’t affright yourself, Prince,” replied the Fairy; “you ran a risk in fetching the Water of the Fountain of Lions for your father, but there’s no danger in finding out this man, who is my brother Schaibar, but is so far from being like me, though we both had the same father, that he is of so violent a nature that nothing can prevent his giving cruel marks of his resentment for a slight offense; yet, on the other hand, is so good as to oblige anyone in whatever they desire.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	affright	affright	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fetching	fetch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Lions	Lion	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
37	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
47	Schaibar	Schaibar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	56	advmod	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	cop	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
59	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	both	both	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
66	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	73	mark	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
68	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	73	cop	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
70	so	so	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
71	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
72	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
73	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
74	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	77	nsubj	_	_
75	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	77	nsubj	_	_
76	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	77	aux	_	_
77	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	73	acl:relcl	_	_
78	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	79	nsubj	_	_
79	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	77	advcl	_	_
80	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	amod	_	_
81	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	79	obj	_	_
82	of	of	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
83	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	84	nmod:poss	_	_
84	resentment	resentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	81	nmod	_	_
85	for	for	ADP	IN	_	88	case	_	_
86	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	88	det	_	_
87	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	88	amod	_	_
88	offense	offense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	99	punct	_	_
90	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	99	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	90	punct	_	_
92	on	on	ADP	IN	_	95	case	_	_
93	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	95	det	_	_
94	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	95	amod	_	_
95	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	99	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
97	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	99	cop	_	_
98	so	so	ADV	RB	_	99	advmod	_	_
99	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
100	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	102	mark	_	_
101	to	to	PART	TO	_	102	mark	_	_
102	oblige	oblige	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	99	csubj	_	_
103	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	102	obj	_	_
104	in	in	ADP	IN	_	105	case	_	_
105	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	102	obl	_	_
106	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	107	nsubj	_	_
107	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	105	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
108	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **affright** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | yourself |  |  |  | Prince *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run** *in a quote* | past | you | a risk |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fetch** *in a quote* | gerund | a risk *not said here* | the Water of the Fountain of Lions |  |  |  | for your father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent water=Theme for father=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **find out** *in a quote* | gerund | no danger *not said here* | this man and my brother |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this man and my brother | my brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | from the Fairy *= fairy*; far *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** *in a quote* | past | we | the same father |  |  |  | both *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | danger |  |  |  |  | of a violent nature | tree rules |
| 10 | **prevent** *in a quote* | can | a violent nature |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 11 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | danger | cruel marks of Prince's resentment |  |  |  | for a slight offense | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent mark=Theme for offense=Asset |
| 12 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the other hand | yet | good *property* | tree rules |
| 13 | **oblige** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | anyone |  | whatever |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
| 14 | **desire** *in a quote* | present | marks *= mark* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 15 | **mark** *in a quote* |  |  | Prince's resentment |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 16 | **resent** *in a quote* |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom resentment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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