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title: "I hope you will pardon me for not being a better goose-herd," said… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "I hope you will pardon me for not being a better goose-herd," said Maximilian; "but, as I am a king, I am not used to such work." Who acts: Maximilian, you. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 70

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"I hope you will pardon me for not being a better goose-herd," said Maximilian; "but, as I am a king, I am not used to such work."

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**Who acts:** Maximilian, you · **What happens:** hope, pardon, not be, say, be, not use · **To what, where:** Maximilian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maximilian, 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:pg18442:47:70
# text = "I hope you will pardon me for not being a better goose-herd," said Maximilian; "but, as I am a king, I am not used to such work."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
13	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Maximilian	Maximilian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | Maximilian |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pardon** *in a quote* | future | you | Maximilian |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a better goose herd | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Maximilian |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Maximilian |  |  |  |  | as a king | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **use** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Maximilian |  |  |  | to such work | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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