--- title: “Your Majesty, as you seemed to like the first basket of pears, I ha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Your Majesty, as you seemed to like the first basket of pears, I have brought you some more,” said he, “with my master, the Count Piro’s humble respects.” Who acts: Majesty, fox. 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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, fox), 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:pg2435:25:65 # text = “Your Majesty, as you seemed to like the first basket of pears, I have brought you some more,” said he, “with my master, the Count Piro’s humble respects.” 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:outer _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 12 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 pears pear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Count Count PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 Piro Piro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 humble humble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 respects respects NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | Your Majesty | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **like** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Your Majesty *not said here* | the first basket of pears | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot basket=Theme | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | fox | some more | you | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination more=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fox | the Count Piro's humble respects | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/66/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/)