--- title: He is made exactly as the Sultan your father has described him, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He is made exactly as the Sultan your father has described him, and has no other arms than a bar of iron of five hundred pounds weight, without which he never stirs, and which makes him respected. Who acts: father, danger. 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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 (father, danger), 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:pg503:53:6 # text = He is made exactly as the Sultan your father has described him, and has no other arms than a bar of iron of five hundred pounds weight, without which he never stirs, and which makes him respected. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 compound _ _ 26 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 compound _ _ 28 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 without without ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 stirs stir VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 respected respect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | danger | | | | as the Sultan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **describe** | present · perfect | your father | danger | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | | no other arms | | | | than a bar of iron and pounds weight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 4 | **not** **stir** | present | father | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **make** | present | | danger | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **respect** | participle | danger *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/53/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/53/7/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/53/)