--- title: 'Then let your majesty bid the royal shoemaker make you a shoe of go… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Then let your majesty bid the royal shoemaker make you a shoe of goat-skin very loose and comfortable, while I prepare a varnish to paint over it of which I alone have the secret!' Who acts: majesty, royal shoemaker, 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 (majesty, royal shoemaker, 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:pg3027:37:35 # text = 'Then let your majesty bid the royal shoemaker make you a shoe of goat-skin very loose and comfortable, while I prepare a varnish to paint over it of which I alone have the secret!' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 bid bid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 shoemaker shoemaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 prepare prepare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 varnish varnish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 paint paint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 30 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nmod _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 alone alone ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | your majesty *not said here* | | | | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bid** | past | your majesty | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | the royal shoemaker | a shoe of goat skin | you | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary shoe=Product | | 4 | **prepare** | present | I | a varnish | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent varnish=Patient | | 5 | **paint** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | majesty | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent over it=Destination | | 6 | **have** | present | I | the secret | | | | alone *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/36/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/)