The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 1

My gentleness and good behavior gained so far on the Emperor and his Court, and, indeed, on the people in general, that I began to have hopes of getting my liberty in a short time.

Who acts: gentleness, I, hopes · What happens: gain, begin, have, get · To what, where: hopes, liberty

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleness, I, hopes), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gentleness	nmod:poss
2	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gained	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 behavior	cc
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 behavior	amod
5	behavior	behavior	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gentleness	conj
6	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gained	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Emperor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Emperor	det
11	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gained	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Court	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Court	nmod:poss
14	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Emperor	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 people	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 people	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	22 people	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 indeed	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gained	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 general	case
24	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 began	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gained	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	obj
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 getting	mark
33	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 hopes	acl
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 liberty	nmod:poss
35	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 getting	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 time	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 time	det
38	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 time	amod
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 getting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gain	past	My gentleness and good behavior			on the Emperor and his Court; far property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	begin	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	hopes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
4	get	gerund	hopes not said here	my liberty	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liberty=Stimulus

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.

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