--- title: His Majesty presented me with fifty purses of sprugs (their greatest… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: His Majesty presented me with fifty purses of sprugs (their greatest gold coin) and his picture at full length, which I put immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt. Who acts: Majesty, full length, Majesties. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/13/) [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 V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/) / 13 # The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 13 His Majesty presented me with fifty purses of sprugs (their greatest gold coin) and his picture at full length, which I put immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt. **Who acts:** Majesty, full length, Majesties · **What happens:** present, put, keep, hurt, coin · **To what, where:** me, length 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 (Majesty, full length, Majesties), 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:pg503:47:13 # text = His Majesty presented me with fifty purses of sprugs (their greatest gold coin) and his picture at full length, which I put immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt. 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 3 nsubj _ _ 3 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 purses purse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sprugs sprug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 13 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:outer _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 from from SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **present** | past | Emperor's Majesty | | me | | | with fifty purses of sprugs Majesties's greatest gold coin and Emperor's picture at full length | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with purse=Theme | | 2 | **put** | past | full length | | | | | into one of my gloves; immediately *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Emperor's Majesty *not said here* | length | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | Emperor's Majesty *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 5 | **coin** | | Majesties *= majesty* | | | | | | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/47/)