--- title: 'Oh, my lord, he had the audacity to wish to touch your majesty's sa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Oh, my lord, he had the audacity to wish to touch your majesty's sacred person--he, a good-for-nothing boy, a mere shoemaker's apprentice, perhaps! Who acts: lord. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/1/) [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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/) / 1 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 1 'Oh, my lord, he had the audacity to wish to touch your majesty's sacred person--he, a good-for-nothing boy, a mere shoemaker's apprentice, perhaps! **Who acts:** lord · **What happens:** have, wish, touch · **To what, where:** audacity, sacred person This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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:pg3027:38:1 # text = 'Oh, my lord, he had the audacity to wish to touch your majesty's sacred person--he, a good-for-nothing boy, a mere shoemaker's apprentice, perhaps! 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 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 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 audacity audacity NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 29 compound _ _ 29 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 shoemaker shoemaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 apprentice apprentice NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | my lord | the audacity | | | | for a good nothing boy and a mere shoemaker's apprentice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audacity=Patient | | 2 | **wish** | to-infinitive | my lord *not said here* | the audacity *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **touch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my lord *not said here* | your majesty's sacred person | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Co-Theme | 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: [Opening, part 37, 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/90/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/)