--- title: His Majesty desired that I would take some opportunity to bring all… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His Majesty desired that I would take some opportunity to bring all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports, and seemed to think of nothing less than conquering the whole Empire of Blefuscu, and becoming the sole monarch of the world. Who acts: Majesty, I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/) / 27 # The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 27 His Majesty desired that I would take some opportunity to bring all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports, and seemed to think of nothing less than conquering the whole Empire of Blefuscu, and becoming the sole monarch of the world. **Who acts:** Majesty, I · **What happens:** desire, take, bring, seem, think, conquer · **To what, where:** opportunity, rest, ports, whole Empire, sole monarch This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. 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. **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:pg503:46:27 # text = His Majesty desired that I would take some opportunity to bring all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports, and seemed to think of nothing less than conquering the whole Empire of Blefuscu, and becoming the sole monarch of the world. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 desired desire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 ports port NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 obl _ _ 30 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 31 than than SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 conquering conquer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Blefuscu Blefuscu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 sole sole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **desire** | past | Emperor's Majesty | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **take** | would | I | some opportunity | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | | 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all rest of Emperor's enemy's ships | | Emperor's ports | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rest=Theme into port=Destination | | 4 | **seem** | past | | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **conquer** | gerund | | the whole Empire of Blefuscu | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient | | 7 | **become** | gerund | | the sole monarch of the world | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/28/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/)