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title: The King immediately commanded the officers of his wardrobe to run a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King immediately commanded the officers of his wardrobe to run and fetch one of his best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 35

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The King immediately commanded the officers of his wardrobe to run and fetch one of his best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** command, run, fetch · **To what, where:** officers, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg503:21:35
# text = The King immediately commanded the officers of his wardrobe to run and fetch one of his best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | the King | the officers of King's wardrobe |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent officer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **run** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | infinitive | the King *not said here* | one of King's best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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