--- title: “Ah! madam,” she cried, “if I might beg you to stay here a moment I… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Ah! madam,” she cried, “if I might beg you to stay here a moment I would run and fetch my pot of pinks for you--they could not fall into better hands.” Who acts: Queen, pinks. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/43/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/) / 43 # The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 43 “Ah! madam,” she cried, “if I might beg you to stay here a moment I would run and fetch my pot of pinks for you--they could not fall into better hands.” **Who acts:** Queen, pinks · **What happens:** cry, beg, stay, run, fetch, not fall · **To what, where:** madam, you, moment, pot, better hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, pinks), 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:pg503:22:43 # text = “Ah! madam,” she cried, “if I might beg you to stay here a moment I would run and fetch my pot of pinks for you--they could not fall into better hands.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fetch fetch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 pinks pink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Queen | madam | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | might | Queen | | you | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **stay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | | | here | moment | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** *in a quote* | would | Queen | a moment *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Trajectory | | 5 | **fetch** *in a quote* | infinitive | Queen *not said here* | my pot of pinks | | | | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pot=Theme for you=Beneficiary | | 6 | **not** **fall** *in a quote* | could | pinks *= pink* | | | | | into better hands *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/44/) - ↑ back to [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/)