--- title: “Your Majesty, my master sends you a few of his best pears, and begs… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Your Majesty, my master sends you a few of his best pears, and begs you will graciously accept them,” he said, laying the basket at the feet of the king. Who acts: Majesty, you, Boy. 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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, you, Boy), 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:pg2435:25:47 # text = “Your Majesty, my master sends you a few of his best pears, and begs you will graciously accept them,” he said, laying the basket at the feet of the king. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 pears pear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 begs beg VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 graciously graciously ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** *in a quote* | present | Your Majesty and my master | a few of Boy's best pears | you | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination few=Theme | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | Your Majesty and my master *not said here* | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **accept** *in a quote* | future | you | Majesty | | | | graciously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lay** | gerund | Boy *not said here* | the basket | | the feet of the king | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme at foot=Destination | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/48/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/)