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title: The next morning Prince Ahmed returned to the fairy Perie Banou, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning Prince Ahmed returned to the fairy Perie Banou, and related to her sincerely and faithfully all that had passed at his father’s court from the giving of the tent, which he told her he received with the utmost gratitude, to the new request he had charged him to make. Who acts: next m
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 52

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The next morning Prince Ahmed returned to the fairy Perie Banou, and related to her sincerely and faithfully all that had passed at his father’s court from the giving of the tent, which he told her he received with the utmost gratitude, to the new request he had charged him to make.

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**Who acts:** next morning, that, court, Ahmed · **What happens:** return, pass, give, tell, receive, charge · **To what, where:** court, tent, Ahmed, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next morning, that, court, Ahmed), 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:pg65965:14:52
# text = The next morning Prince Ahmed returned to the fairy Perie Banou, and related to her sincerely and faithfully all that had passed at his father’s court from the giving of the tent, which he told her he received with the utmost gratitude, to the new request he had charged him to make.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Perie	Perie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	Banou	Banou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	sincerely	sincerely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	parataxis	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	iobj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the next morning |  |  |  |  | to the fairy *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to fairy=Result |
| 2 | **pass** | past · perfect | that |  |  | Ahmed's father's court |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | Ahmed's father's court *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the tent | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ahmed | the tent | court |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** | past | Ahmed |  |  |  |  | with the utmost gratitude | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **charge** | past · perfect · passive |  | Ahmed | father |  |  | to the new request | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Asset |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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