--- title: After Prince Ahmed had expressed to Perie Banou his sincere gratitud… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: After Prince Ahmed had expressed to Perie Banou his sincere gratitude, the fairy summoned twenty horsemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him. Who acts: fairy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/) / 1 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 1 After Prince Ahmed had expressed to Perie Banou his sincere gratitude, the fairy summoned twenty horsemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him. **Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** express, summon, mount, equip, attend · **To what, where:** twenty horsemen, fairy This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:13:1 # text = After Prince Ahmed had expressed to Perie Banou his sincere gratitude, the fairy summoned twenty horsemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 expressed express VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Perie Perie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ _ 8 Banou Banou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 sincere sincere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 horsemen horseman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 20 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 equipped equip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **express** | past · perfect | | | | | after Prince Ahmed | Perie *obl:agent*; Perie's sincere gratitude *parataxis* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **summon** | past | the fairy | twenty horsemen | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Recipient | | 3 | **mount** | participle | | twenty horsemen *not said here* | | | | well *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **equip** | participle | | | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **attend** | to-infinitive | the fairy *not said here* | | fairy | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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: [Opening, part 12, 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/85/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/)