--- title: Having been privately told that I had befriended them, they made me… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Having been privately told that I had befriended them, they made me a visit, and paying me many compliments on my valor and generosity, invited me to their kingdom in the Emperor their master’s name. Who acts: I, ambassadors, master. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ambassadors, master), 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:pg503:46:32 # text = Having been privately told that I had befriended them, they made me a visit, and paying me many compliments on my valor and generosity, invited me to their kingdom in the Emperor their master’s name. 1 Having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 ccomp _ _ 2 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 privately privately ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 befriended befriend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 compliments compliment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 valor valor NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 generosity generosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’s 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle · passive | | | | | | privately *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | | 3 | **befriend** | past · perfect | I | ambassadors *= ambassador* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past | ambassadors *= ambassador* | a visit | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary visit=Product | | 5 | **pay** | gerund | ambassadors *= ambassador* *not said here* | | me | my valor and generosity | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient compliment=Asset | | 6 | **invite** | past | | me | | | | to ambassadors's kingdom; in the Emperor | tree rules | | 7 | **name** | | ambassadors's master | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/)