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title: Out of gratitude for your favors I procured information of the whole… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of gratitude for your favors I procured information of the whole proceedings, venturing my head for your service, and this was the charge against you: Who acts: I, this, your, whole proceedings. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 41

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Out of gratitude for your favors I procured information of the whole proceedings, venturing my head for your service, and this was the charge against you:

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**Who acts:** I, this, your, whole proceedings · **What happens:** procure, venture, be, favor, inform, service · **To what, where:** information, gratitude, head, charge

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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, this, your, whole proceedings), 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:pg503:46:41
# text = Out of gratitude for your favors I procured information of the whole proceedings, venturing my head for your service, and this was the charge against you:
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	favors	favor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	procured	procure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	venturing	venture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** | past | I | information of the whole proceedings |  | gratitude for your favors |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme |
| 2 | **venture** | gerund | I *not said here* | my head |  |  |  | for your service | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the charge |  |  |  | against you | tree rules |
| 4 | **favor** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **inform** |  | the whole proceedings |  |  |  |  |  | nom information «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **service** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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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