--- title: “Alas! your Majesty,” answered the prince, “it is not love or marria… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Alas! your Majesty,” answered the prince, “it is not love or marriage that makes me so gloomy; but the thought, which haunts me day and night, that all men, even kings, must die. Who acts: Majesty, embassy, love, thought. 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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 (Majesty, embassy, love, thought), 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:pg2435:18:64 # text = “Alas! your Majesty,” answered the prince, “it is not love or marriage that makes me so gloomy; but the thought, which haunts me day and night, that all men, even kings, must die. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 haunts haunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 even even ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 43 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | your Majesty | | the prince | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | embassy | love or marriage | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | love or marriage | your Majesty *= majesty* | | | | gloomy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | | 4 | **haunt** *in a quote* | present | the thought | your Majesty *= majesty* | | | day | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 5 | **die** *in a quote* | must | all men and kings | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/65/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/18/)