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title: Moreover, though I had taken away his fleet he was grateful to me fo… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, though I had taken away his fleet he was grateful to me for many good offices I had done him in making the peace. Who acts: I, fleet. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 8

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Moreover, though I had taken away his fleet he was grateful to me for many good offices I had done him in making the peace.

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**Who acts:** I, fleet · **What happens:** take away, be, do, make · **To what, where:** me, Emperor, peace

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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 (I, fleet), 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:pg503:47:8
# text = Moreover, though I had taken away his fleet he was grateful to me for many good offices I had done him in making the peace.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | away, moreover *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Emperor's fleet |  | me |  |  | for many good offices; grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | I | Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | I *not said here* | the peace |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |

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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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