--- title: Moreover, six of his Majesty’s greatest scholars were employed to te… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Moreover, six of his Majesty’s greatest scholars were employed to teach me their language, so that soon I was able to converse after a fashion with the Emperor, who often honored me with his visits. Who acts: I, fashion, colonel. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/44/9/) [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/) / [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/44/) / 9 # The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 9 Moreover, six of his Majesty’s greatest scholars were employed to teach me their language, so that soon I was able to converse after a fashion with the Emperor, who often honored me with his visits. **Who acts:** I, fashion, colonel · **What happens:** employ, teach, be, converse, honor, visit · **To what, where:** six, language, me 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, fashion, colonel), 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:pg503:44:9 # text = Moreover, six of his Majesty’s greatest scholars were employed to teach me their language, so that soon I was able to converse after a fashion with the Emperor, who often honored me with his visits. 1 Moreover moreover ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 23 mark _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 fixed _ _ 20 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 converse converse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 often often ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 honored honor VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **employ** | past · passive | | six | | | | of colonel's Majesty's greatest scholars; moreover *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | scholars's language | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient language=Topic | | 3 | **is** | past | I | | | | | able, soon *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **converse** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | after a fashion with the Emperor | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **honor** | past | a fashion with the Emperor | me | | | | with colonel's visits; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 6 | **visit** | | colonel | | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/44/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/44/10/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/44/)