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title: This pleased the emperor so much that he gave him twelve ducats, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This pleased the emperor so much that he gave him twelve ducats, and said, ‘Henceforth you shall come every day to shave me.’ Who acts: This, pleased emperor, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 9

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This pleased the emperor so much that he gave him twelve ducats, and said, ‘Henceforth you shall come every day to shave me.’

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**Who acts:** This, pleased emperor, you · **What happens:** emperor, give, say, come, shave · **To what, where:** twelve ducats, man, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, pleased emperor, you), 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:pg641:6:9
# text = This pleased the emperor so much that he gave him twelve ducats, and said, ‘Henceforth you shall come every day to shave me.’
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	shave	shave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emperor** |  | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the pleased emperor | twelve ducats | man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ducat=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the pleased emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | shall | you |  |  |  | day | henceforth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shave** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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