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title: But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so pro… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so proud of passing himself off for a man, that when he is to be in a proper humor--and he must be so to answer well--he must be treated quite like a man.” Who acts: royal highness, Highness. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 228

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But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so proud of passing himself off for a man, that when he is to be in a proper humor--and he must be so to answer well--he must be treated quite like a man.”

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**Who acts:** royal highness, Highness · **What happens:** permit, observe, be, pass off, treat · **To what, where:** me, Highness, proper humor

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal highness, Highness), 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:pg1597:23:228
# text = But your royal highness will permit me to observe, that he is so proud of passing himself off for a man, that when he is to be in a proper humor--and he must be so to answer well--he must be treated quite like a man.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
48	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | future | your royal highness | me |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **observe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | your royal highness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Highness |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass off** | gerund | Highness *not said here* | Highness |  |  |  | for a man | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | present | Highness |  |  | a proper humor |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | must | Highness |  |  |  |  | answer, well *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **treat** | must · passive |  | Highness |  |  |  | like a man | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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