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title: “I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren, which my noble lor… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren, which my noble lord the Marquis of Carabas” (for that was the title which puss was pleased to give his master) “has commanded me to present to your majesty from him.” Who acts: Proud, warren, that, title. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 19

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“I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren, which my noble lord the Marquis of Carabas” (for that was the title which puss was pleased to give his master) “has commanded me to present to your majesty from him.”

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**Who acts:** Proud, warren, that, title, Marquis · **What happens:** bring, lord, be, give, command, present · **To what, where:** you, master, Proud, majesty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proud, warren, that, title), 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:pg503:21:19
# text = “I have brought you, sir, a rabbit of the warren, which my noble lord the Marquis of Carabas” (for that was the title which puss was pleased to give his master) “has commanded me to present to your majesty from him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	warren	warren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Marquis	Marquis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Carabas	Carabas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
31	puss	puss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
42	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Proud of Proud's prey *= proud* |  | you |  |  | sir *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
| 2 | **lord** *in a quote* |  | the warren and my noble lord |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for the title | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the title |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | the title *not said here* | Proud's master |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |
| 6 | **command** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Marquis of Carabas *not said here* | Proud of Proud's prey *= proud* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 7 | **present** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Marquis of Carabas *not said here* |  | your majesty |  |  | from Proud | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to majesty=Recipient |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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