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title: For as to what we have heard you say, that there are other kingdoms… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For as to what we have heard you say, that there are other kingdoms in the world, inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are very doubtful, and rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars, because a hundred mortals of your size would soon destro
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 42

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For as to what we have heard you say, that there are other kingdoms in the world, inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are very doubtful, and rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars, because a hundred mortals of your size would soon destroy all the fruit and cattle of his Majesty’s dominions.

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**Who acts:** we, you, philosophers, hundred mortals · **What happens:** hear, say, be, inhabit, drop, destroy · **To what, where:** other kingdoms, world, conjecture, moon, fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, you, philosophers, hundred mortals), 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:pg503:45:42
# text = For as to what we have heard you say, that there are other kingdoms in the world, inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are very doubtful, and rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars, because a hundred mortals of your size would soon destroy all the fruit and cattle of his Majesty’s dominions.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	conjecture	conjecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
51	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nsubj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	60	advmod	_	_
60	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
61	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	63	det:predet	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	conj	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
67	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	70	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	’s	's	PART	POS	_	68	case	_	_
70	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | other kingdoms |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **inhabit** | participle |  | other kingdoms *not said here* |  |  |  | by human creatures | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | our philosophers |  |  |  |  | conjecture *obl*; doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **drop** | past | you | conjecture |  | the moon |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme from moon=Destination |
| 7 | **destroy** | would | hundred mortals of your size | all fruit and cattle of Reldresal's Majesty's dominions |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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