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title: This address of the fairy’s did not in the least alarm Prince Ahmed. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This address of the fairy’s did not in the least alarm Prince Ahmed. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 63

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This address of the fairy’s did not in the least alarm Prince Ahmed.

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**Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** address, alarm · **To what, where:** address, least alarm

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:13:63
# text = This address of the fairy’s did not in the least alarm Prince Ahmed.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **address** |  |  | the fairy's least alarm |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **alarm** |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom alarm «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 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.

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