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title: I slept about eight hours, as I was told afterward; and it was no wo… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I slept about eight hours, as I was told afterward; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the Emperor’s orders, had mingled a sleeping draught in the hogsheads of wine. Who acts: I, relief, orders, Emperor. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I, with its dependency tre
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 54

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I slept about eight hours, as I was told afterward; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the Emperor’s orders, had mingled a sleeping draught in the hogsheads of wine.

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**Who acts:** I, relief, orders, Emperor · **What happens:** sleep, tell, be, mingle, order · **To what, where:** I, wonder, sleeping draught, hogsheads · **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, relief, orders, Emperor), 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:pg503:43:54
# text = I slept about eight hours, as I was told afterward; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the Emperor’s orders, had mingled a sleeping draught in the hogsheads of wine.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	physicians	physician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	amod	_	_
33	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hogsheads	hogshead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | I |  |  |  | hour | for the physicians by the Emperor's orders | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | afterward *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | relief | no wonder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mingle** | past · perfect | the Emperor's orders *not said here* | a sleeping draught |  | the hogsheads of wine |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient |
| 5 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **order** |  | the Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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