--- title: I would have presented my prayer in person, he added in his letter,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I would have presented my prayer in person, he added in his letter, 'but my great age and infirmities do not suffer me to travel; however my envoy has orders to agree to any arrangement that you may propose.' Who acts: Desiree, great age, envoy, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/) / 9 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 9 I would have presented my prayer in person, he added in his letter, 'but my great age and infirmities do not suffer me to travel; however my envoy has orders to agree to any arrangement that you may propose.' **Who acts:** Desiree, great age, envoy, you, my · **What happens:** present, add, not suffer, travel, have, agree · **To what, where:** I, letter, me, orders This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Desiree, great age, envoy, you), 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:pg3027:23:9 # text = I would have presented my prayer in person, he added in his letter, 'but my great age and infirmities do not suffer me to travel; however my envoy has orders to agree to any arrangement that you may propose.' 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ _ 4 presented present VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 infirmities infirmity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 however however ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 envoy envoy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 arrangement arrangement NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 propose propose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **present** | would · perfect · passive | | I | | | | in person | tree rules | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Desiree | | | Desiree's letter | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **suffer** | present · do-support | my great age and infirmities | me | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **travel** | to-infinitive | my great age and infirmities *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | my envoy | orders | | | | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | my envoy *not said here* | orders *not said here* | | | | to any arrangement | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **propose** | may | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **pray** | | my | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **letter** | | Desiree | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/)