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title: The first words I learned were to desire that he would please to giv… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first words I learned were to desire that he would please to give me my liberty, which I every day repeated on my knees; but he answered that this must be a work of time, and that first I must swear a peace with him and his kingdom. Who acts: I, first words, six, this. A sentence of «The Blue Fa
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 10

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The first words I learned were to desire that he would please to give me my liberty, which I every day repeated on my knees; but he answered that this must be a work of time, and that first I must swear a peace with him and his kingdom.

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**Who acts:** I, first words, six, this · **What happens:** learn, desire, please, give, repeat, answer · **To what, where:** first words, liberty, me, day, knees, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first words, six, this), 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:pg503:44:10
# text = The first words I learned were to desire that he would please to give me my liberty, which I every day repeated on my knees; but he answered that this must be a work of time, and that first I must swear a peace with him and his kingdom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	ccomp	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	that	that	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	45	obl	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | I | the first words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **desire** | past | the first words |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **please** | would | six |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | six *not said here* | my liberty | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient liberty=Theme |
| 5 | **repeat** | participle |  | every day *not said here* |  | my knees |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | six |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | must | this | a work |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **swear** | must | I | a peace |  |  |  | with six | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent peace=Eventuality |

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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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