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title: His Majesty, with the royal family and great officers of the Court,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His Majesty, with the royal family and great officers of the Court, came out to receive me, and they entertained me in a manner suited to the generosity of so great a prince. Who acts: Majesty, people. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 60

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His Majesty, with the royal family and great officers of the Court, came out to receive me, and they entertained me in a manner suited to the generosity of so great a prince.

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**Who acts:** Majesty, people · **What happens:** come out, receive, entertain, suit · **To what, where:** me, manner

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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 (Majesty, people), 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:pg503:46:60
# text = His Majesty, with the royal family and great officers of the Court, came out to receive me, and they entertained me in a manner suited to the generosity of so great a prince.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	suited	suit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | friend's Majesty |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | to-infinitive | friend's Majesty *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **entertain** | past | people | me |  | a manner |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 4 | **suit** | participle |  | a manner *not said here* |  |  |  | to the generosity of a great prince | tree rules |

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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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