--- title: As for your daughter, I promise you that she shall be more beautiful… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As for your daughter, I promise you that she shall be more beautiful than anyone you ever saw in your life; call her Felicia, and when she grows up give her the ring and the pot of pinks to console her for her poverty.’ Who acts: I, mother, you. 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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 (I, mother, you), 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:pg503:22:5 # text = As for your daughter, I promise you that she shall be more beautiful than anyone you ever saw in your life; call her Felicia, and when she grows up give her the ring and the pot of pinks to console her for her poverty.’ 1 As as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 14 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 19 advmod _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 Felicia Felicia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 pinks pink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 console console NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:unmarked _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I | | you | | | as your daughter | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **is** | shall | mother | | | | | than anyone; beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | past | you | | | your life | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **call** | infinitive | | | mother's Felicia | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent felicia=Recipient | | 5 | **grow up** | present | mother | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **give** | infinitive | | the ring and the pot of pinks | mother | | | for mother's poverty; console mother *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme for poverty=Asset | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/6/) - ↑ back to [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/)