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title: “Madam,” she said, “I offer you my life; let me be killed, I shall b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Madam,” she said, “I offer you my life; let me be killed, I shall be only too happy to die for such a kind mistress.” Who acts: Miranda. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 52

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“Madam,” she said, “I offer you my life; let me be killed, I shall be only too happy to die for such a kind mistress.”

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**Who acts:** Miranda · **What happens:** say, offer, let, kill, be, die · **To what, where:** life, you, Miranda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda), 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:pg503:30:52
# text = “Madam,” she said, “I offer you my life; let me be killed, I shall be only too happy to die for such a kind mistress.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Miranda |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **offer** *in a quote* | present | Miranda | my life | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal life=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Miranda |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | Miranda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | Miranda |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Miranda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for such kind mistress | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mistress=Theme |

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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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