--- title: He told his Majesty that it would be inconvenient to part with her,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He told his Majesty that it would be inconvenient to part with her, as, when she was gone, the rats and mice might destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige his Majesty he would fetch her. Who acts: factor, Majesty, Miss, rats. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/) / 45 # The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 45 He told his Majesty that it would be inconvenient to part with her, as, when she was gone, the rats and mice might destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige his Majesty he would fetch her. **Who acts:** factor, Majesty, Miss, rats · **What happens:** tell, be, destroy, oblige, fetch · **To what, where:** Majesty, goods, ship, Miss · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (factor, Majesty, Miss, rats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:29:45 # text = He told his Majesty that it would be inconvenient to part with her, as, when she was gone, the rats and mice might destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige his Majesty he would fetch her. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 inconvenient inconvenient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 oblige oblige VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 parataxis _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | factor | | factor's Majesty | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | would | Majesty | | | | | inconvenient *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | Miss | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **destroy** | might | the rats and mice | the goods | | the ship | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient | | 5 | **oblige** | to-infinitive | factor *not said here* | factor's Majesty | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Patient | | 6 | **fetch** | would | factor | Miss | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/46/) - ↑ back to [The History of Whittington](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/29/)