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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 48

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His Excellency, having mounted my right leg, advanced to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue, and spoke about ten minutes, often pointing forward, which, as I afterward found, was toward the capital city, about half a mile distant, whither it was commanded by his Majesty that I should be conveyed.

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**Who acts:** I, Majesty · **What happens:** mount, speak, point, find, be, command · **To what, where:** Excellency, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg503:43:48
# text = His Excellency, having mounted my right leg, advanced to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue, and spoke about ten minutes, often pointing forward, which, as I afterward found, was toward the capital city, about half a mile distant, whither it was commanded by his Majesty that I should be conveyed.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Excellency	excellency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	advanced	advanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	often	often	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
31	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
41	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	about	about	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	49	det:predet	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	parataxis	_	_
50	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	55	advmod	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	conj	_	_
56	by	by	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	obj	_	_
60	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	conveyed	convey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | person's Excellency |  |  |  | with a dozen of person's retinue | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme leg=Destination |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **point** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forward, often *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | I |  |  |  |  | afterward *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | toward the capital city | tree rules |
| 6 | **command** | past · passive | person's Majesty | Excellency |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **convey** | should · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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