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title: However, he agreed at length, though he succeeded in himself drawing… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, he agreed at length, though he succeeded in himself drawing up the conditions on which I should be set free. Who acts: majesty, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 17

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However, he agreed at length, though he succeeded in himself drawing up the conditions on which I should be set free.

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**Who acts:** majesty, I · **What happens:** agree, succeed, draw up, be · **To what, where:** length, conditions

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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 (majesty, I), 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:pg503:45:17
# text = However, he agreed at length, though he succeeded in himself drawing up the conditions on which I should be set free.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	_
13	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | majesty |  |  | length |  | however *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | majesty |  |  |  |  | in majesty | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in himself=Eventuality |
| 3 | **draw up** | gerund | majesty *not said here* | the conditions |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | should | I |  |  | the conditions |  | free *property* | 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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