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title: Therefore his Imperial Majesty, placing great confidence in your val… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore his Imperial Majesty, placing great confidence in your valor and strength, has commanded me to set the case before you.” Who acts: Imperial Majesty. 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 48

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Therefore his Imperial Majesty, placing great confidence in your valor and strength, has commanded me to set the case before you.”

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**Who acts:** Imperial Majesty · **What happens:** place, command, set · **To what, where:** great confidence, valor, me, case · **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 (Imperial Majesty), 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:pg503:45:48
# text = Therefore his Imperial Majesty, placing great confidence in your valor and strength, has commanded me to set the case before you.”
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	placing	place	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	valor	valor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund | empire's Imperial Majesty *not said here* | great confidence |  | your valor and strength |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent confidence=Theme in valor=Destination |
| 2 | **command** | present · perfect |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive |  | the case |  |  | before you |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent case=Theme before you=Destination |

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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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