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title: His Majesty, out of respect to his good character, conferred the hon… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His Majesty, out of respect to his good character, conferred the honor of knighthood on him soon after. Who acts: Majesty. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 84

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His Majesty, out of respect to his good character, conferred the honor of knighthood on him soon after.

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**Who acts:** Majesty · **What happens:** confer, honor · **To what, where:** honor, knighthood

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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 (Majesty), 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:pg503:29:84
# text = His Majesty, out of respect to his good character, conferred the honor of knighthood on him soon after.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	conferred	confer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	after	after	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confer** | past | Whittington's Majesty | the honor of knighthood on Whittington |  |  |  | after *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **honor** |  |  | knighthood on Whittington |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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