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title: ‘Madam, pardon me for my hasty words just now; I was wrong, and will… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Madam, pardon me for my hasty words just now; I was wrong, and will thankfully accept the offer you made me.’ Who acts: Madam, I, you, my. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 74

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‘Madam, pardon me for my hasty words just now; I was wrong, and will thankfully accept the offer you made me.’

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**Who acts:** Madam, I, you, my · **What happens:** pardon, be, accept, make, word · **To what, where:** me, offer

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, I, you, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3454:3:74
# text = ‘Madam, pardon me for my hasty words just now; I was wrong, and will thankfully accept the offer you made me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	pardon	pardon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pardon** | infinitive | Madam | me |  |  | now | for my hasty words | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for word=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accept** | future |  | the offer |  |  |  | thankfully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
| 5 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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