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title: At last, having his Majesty’s leave to pay my respects to the Empero… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, having his Majesty’s leave to pay my respects to the Emperor of Blefuscu, I resolved to take this opportunity. Who acts: I. 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 58

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At last, having his Majesty’s leave to pay my respects to the Emperor of Blefuscu, I resolved to take this opportunity.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, pay, resolve, take · **To what, where:** leave, respects, last, opportunity

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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), 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:pg503:46:58
# text = At last, having his Majesty’s leave to pay my respects to the Emperor of Blefuscu, I resolved to take this opportunity.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	respects	respects	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | I *not said here* | Emperor's Majesty's leave |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my respects |  |  |  | to the Emperor of Blefuscu | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | I |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |

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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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