--- title: But his Majesty was graciously pleased to say that since the council… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But his Majesty was graciously pleased to say that since the council thought the loss of your eyes too easy a punishment, some other might afterward be inflicted. Who acts: Majesty, easy punishment. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/49/) [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/) / 49 # The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 49 But his Majesty was graciously pleased to say that since the council thought the loss of your eyes too easy a punishment, some other might afterward be inflicted. **Who acts:** Majesty, easy punishment · **What happens:** be, say, think, inflict · **To what, where:** loss, some · **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 (Majesty, easy punishment), 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:pg503:46:49 # text = But his Majesty was graciously pleased to say that since the council thought the loss of your eyes too easy a punishment, some other might afterward be inflicted. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Majesty Majesty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 graciously graciously ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 since since ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 fixed _ _ 26 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 afterward afterward ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 inflicted inflict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | secretary's Majesty | | | | | graciously, pleased *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | secretary's Majesty *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | secretary's Majesty *not said here* | the loss of your eyes | | | since the council | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot loss=Theme | | 4 | **inflict** | might · passive | a easy punishment *not said here* | some | | | | afterward *property* | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/50/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/46/)