--- title: The lady of the castle saw her, and told her, "I'm sorry I have no b… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The lady of the castle saw her, and told her, "I'm sorry I have no better place, but if you like you may be our scullion." Who acts: lady, first. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, first), 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:pg14241:31:82 # text = The lady of the castle saw her, and told her, "I'm sorry I have no better place, but if you like you may be our scullion." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 20 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 scullion scullion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the lady of the castle | first | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the lady of the castle *not said here* | | first | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the lady of the castle *= lady* | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the lady of the castle *= lady* | no better place | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | | 5 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | first | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | may | first | our scullion | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/83/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/)