--- title: “Again, when ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, like a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Again, when ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, like a false traitor, you aided and entertained them, though you knew them to be servants of a prince lately in open war against his Imperial Majesty. Who acts: ambassadors, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/44/) [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/) / 44 # The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 44 “Again, when ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, like a false traitor, you aided and entertained them, though you knew them to be servants of a prince lately in open war against his Imperial Majesty. **Who acts:** ambassadors, you · **What happens:** arrive, aid, entertain, know, be · **To what, where:** Court, ambassadors, open war, servants · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ambassadors, you), 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:pg503:46:44 # text = “Again, when ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, like a false traitor, you aided and entertained them, though you knew them to be servants of a prince lately in open war against his Imperial Majesty. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 ambassadors ambassador NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Blefuscu Blefuscu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 traitor traitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 aided aid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 entertained entertain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 though though SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 ccomp _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 lately lately ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 38 against against ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** *in a quote* | past | ambassadors | | | the Court of Blefuscu | again | like a false traitor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from court=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **aid** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **entertain** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | ambassadors *= ambassador* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | past | you | ambassadors *= ambassador* | | open war against Blefuscu's Imperial Majesty | | lately *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | servants | | | | of a prince | tree rules | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/45/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/)