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title: Forgive me, my lord and husband,” she added, turning to the king, “f… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgive me, my lord and husband,” she added, turning to the king, “for trying to find out the truth in this way. Who acts: you, queen. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 56

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Forgive me, my lord and husband,” she added, turning to the king, “for trying to find out the truth in this way.

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**Who acts:** you, queen · **What happens:** forgive, add, turn, try, find out · **To what, where:** me, lord, truth, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, queen), 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:pg2435:35:56
# text = Forgive me, my lord and husband,” she added, turning to the king, “for trying to find out the truth in this way.
1	Forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forgive** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | my lord and husband *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | queen | my lord and husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the king *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result |
| 4 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **find out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the truth |  | this way |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |

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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:** «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.

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