--- title: But your royal highness must allow me to observe, that he is very pr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But your royal highness must allow me to observe, that he is very proud of being considered a man, and to put him in a good humor, so that he may answer correctly, he must be treated as a man." Who acts: royal highness, highness. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (royal highness, highness), 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:pg27200:165:217 # text = But your royal highness must allow me to observe, that he is very proud of being considered a man, and to put him in a good humor, so that he may answer correctly, he must be treated as a man." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 highness highness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 observe observe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 16 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 humor humor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 36 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 parataxis _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allow** | must | your royal highness | | me | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **observe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | your royal highness *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | highness | | | | | proud *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **consider** | gerund · passive | highness *not said here* | a man | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S» | | 5 | **put** | to-infinitive | | highness | | a good humor | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in humor=Destination | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | may | highness | | | | | correctly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **treat** | must · passive | | highness | | | | as a man | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as man=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/216/) - next →: [sentence 218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/218/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/)