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title: 'I have heard the fame of your majesty's wisdom, and I have travelle… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I have heard the fame of your majesty's wisdom, and I have travelled from far to ask your counsel. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 127

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'I have heard the fame of your majesty's wisdom, and I have travelled from far to ask your counsel.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** hear, travell, ask · **To what, where:** fame, counsel

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3027:39:127
# text = 'I have heard the fame of your majesty's wisdom, and I have travelled from far to ask your counsel.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | the fame of your majesty's wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fame=Stimulus |
| 2 | **travell** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your counsel |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent counsel=Recipient |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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