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title: The Emperor of Blefuscu, with the Empress and the royal family, came… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor of Blefuscu, with the Empress and the royal family, came out of the palace; and I lay down on my face to kiss their hands, which they graciously gave me. Who acts: Emperor, I, hand. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 12

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The Emperor of Blefuscu, with the Empress and the royal family, came out of the palace; and I lay down on my face to kiss their hands, which they graciously gave me.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, I, hand · **What happens:** come out, lay down, kiss, give · **To what, where:** palace, face, hands, me

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, I, hand), 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:pg503:47:12
# text = The Emperor of Blefuscu, with the Empress and the royal family, came out of the palace; and I lay down on my face to kiss their hands, which they graciously gave me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the Emperor of Blefuscu and the royal family | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient palace=Result |
| 2 | **lay down** | present | I |  |  | my face |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on face=Destination |
| 3 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | princes's hands |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | hand | princes's hands | me |  |  | graciously *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=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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