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title: My gentleness and good behavior gained so far on the Emperor and his… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My gentleness and good behavior gained so far on the Emperor and his Court, and, indeed, on the people in general, that I began to have hopes of getting my liberty in a short time. Who acts: gentleness, I, hopes. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 1

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My gentleness and good behavior gained so far on the Emperor and his Court, and, indeed, on the people in general, that I began to have hopes of getting my liberty in a short time.

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**Who acts:** gentleness, I, hopes · **What happens:** gain, begin, have, get · **To what, where:** hopes, liberty

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleness, I, hopes), 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:pg503:45:1
# text = My gentleness and good behavior gained so far on the Emperor and his Court, and, indeed, on the people in general, that I began to have hopes of getting my liberty in a short time.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past | My gentleness and good behavior |  |  |  |  | on the Emperor and his Court; far *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **begin** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | hopes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | hopes *not said here* | my liberty |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liberty=Stimulus |

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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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