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title: “Golbaste Mamarem Evlame Gurdile Shefin Mully Ully Gue, Most Mighty… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 20

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“Golbaste Mamarem Evlame Gurdile Shefin Mully Ully Gue, Most Mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend to the ends of the globe, monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men, whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun, at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees, pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: His Most Sublime Majesty proposeth to the Man-Mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which by a solemn oath he shall be obliged to perform:

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**Who acts:** dominions, feet, head, princes, Most, solemn oath · **What happens:** extend, press down, strike, shake, propose, arrive · **To what, where:** ends, sun, knees, Man, celestial dominions, Ully

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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 (dominions, feet, head, princes), 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:pg503:45:20
# text = “Golbaste Mamarem Evlame Gurdile Shefin Mully Ully Gue, Most Mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend to the ends of the globe, monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men, whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun, at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees, pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: His Most Sublime Majesty proposeth to the Man-Mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which by a solemn oath he shall be obliged to perform:
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Golbaste	Golbaste	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mamarem	Mamarem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Evlame	Evlame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Gurdile	Gurdile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Shefin	Shefin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Mully	Mully	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Ully	Ully	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Gue	Gue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
12	Mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Lilliput	Lilliput	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	extend	extend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	monarchs	monarch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	down	down	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
58	against	against	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	parataxis	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	nsubj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	_
70	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	acl:relcl	_	_
71	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
72	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
74	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	parataxis	_	_
75	as	as	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
76	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
77	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	79	punct	_	_
79	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	conj	_	_
80	as	as	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
81	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	82	det	_	_
82	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
83	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	_
84	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	79	conj	_	_
85	as	as	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
86	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	84	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	88	punct	_	_
88	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	86	amod	_	_
89	as	as	ADP	IN	_	90	case	_	_
90	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	88	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	96	punct	_	_
92	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	96	nmod:poss	_	_
93	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	96	nsubj	_	_
94	Sublime	sublime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	95	amod	_	_
95	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	93	nmod	_	_
96	proposeth	propose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
97	to	to	ADP	IN	_	99	case	_	_
98	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	99	det	_	_
99	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	96	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
100	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	101	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
101	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	99	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
102	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	104	punct	_	_
103	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	104	advmod	_	_
104	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	96	parataxis	_	_
105	at	at	ADP	IN	_	108	case	_	_
106	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	108	nmod:poss	_	_
107	celestial	celestial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	108	compound	_	_
108	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	104	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
109	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	112	punct	_	_
110	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	112	det	_	_
111	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	112	amod	_	_
112	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	108	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
113	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	122	punct	_	_
114	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	122	obj	_	_
115	by	by	ADP	IN	_	118	case	_	_
116	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	118	det	_	_
117	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	118	amod	_	_
118	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	122	obl	_	_
119	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	122	nsubj	_	_
120	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	122	aux	_	_
121	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	122	aux:pass	_	_
122	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	108	acl	_	_
123	to	to	PART	TO	_	124	mark	_	_
124	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	122	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
125	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** *in a quote* | present | dominions |  | the ends of the globe and monarch of all monarchs |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to end=Recipient |
| 2 | **press down** *in a quote* | present | feet |  |  |  |  | to the center; down *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** *in a quote* | present | head |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against sun=Location |
| 4 | **shake** *in a quote* | infinitive | the princes of the earth | foot's knees |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knee=Patient |
| 5 | **propose** *in a quote* | present | Most  Sublime Majesty |  | the Man and Mountain |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 6 | **arrive** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | our celestial dominions and the following articles |  | lately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **follow** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **oblige** *in a quote* | shall · passive | a solemn oath | Ully |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **perform** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a solemn oath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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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