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title: This Badi-al-Zaman--whose name means ‘Wonder-of-the-World’--was look… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This Badi-al-Zaman--whose name means ‘Wonder-of-the-World’--was looked upon in Bagdad as the most fortunate creature under the sun, because of his vast wealth. Who acts: name. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 42

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This Badi-al-Zaman--whose name means ‘Wonder-of-the-World’--was looked upon in Bagdad as the most fortunate creature under the sun, because of his vast wealth.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** mean, look · **To what, where:** Wonder, Badi

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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:pg7277:9:42
# text = This Badi-al-Zaman--whose name means ‘Wonder-of-the-World’--was looked upon in Bagdad as the most fortunate creature under the sun, because of his vast wealth.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Badi	Badi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wonder	Wonder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	World	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	39	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | name | Wonder |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | past · passive |  | this Badi |  |  |  | upon Bagdad; as the fortunate creature under the sun | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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