--- title: 'I have been happy here, Madam, and I thank you for your goodness to… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'I have been happy here, Madam, and I thank you for your goodness to me; but I have left behind me a stepsister and a stepmother, and I am fain to be with them once more.' Who acts: I. 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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 (I), 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:pg3027:10:120 # text = 'I have been happy here, Madam, and I thank you for your goodness to me; but I have left behind me a stepsister and a stepmother, and I am fain to be with them once more.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 5 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Madam Madam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 24 behind behind ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 stepsister stepsister NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 fain fain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 advcl _ _ 40 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 41 advmod _ _ 41 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present · perfect | I | | | here | | Madam *obl*; happy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | I | | you | | | for your goodness; to me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for goodness=Attribute | | 3 | **leave** | present · perfect | I | a stepsister and a stepmother | | | | behind me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stepsister=Theme behind i=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | fain *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | with stepsister | tree rules | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/119/) - next →: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/121/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/10/)