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title: Accordingly, the next time I had the honor to see our Emperor I desi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, the next time I had the honor to see our Emperor I desired his general permission to visit the Blefuscudian monarch. Who acts: I, honor, Emperor. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 34

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Accordingly, the next time I had the honor to see our Emperor I desired his general permission to visit the Blefuscudian monarch.

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**Who acts:** I, honor, Emperor · **What happens:** have, see, desire, visit, permit · **To what, where:** honor, Emperor, general permission, Blefuscudian monarch

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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 (I, honor, Emperor), 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:pg503:46:34
# text = Accordingly, the next time I had the honor to see our Emperor I desired his general permission to visit the Blefuscudian monarch.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Blefuscudian	blefuscudian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | the honor |  |  | time | accordingly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the honor *not said here* | our Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer emperor=Stimulus |
| 3 | **desire** | past | I | Emperor's general permission |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot permission=Theme |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the Blefuscudian monarch |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monarch=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **permit** |  | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=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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