--- title: “No, my Prince,” replied Celia; “I cannot help thinking you very han… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “No, my Prince,” replied Celia; “I cannot help thinking you very handsome; but what good would riches be to me, and all the grand dresses and splendid carriages that you would give me, if the bad deeds which I should see you do every day made me hate and despise you?” Who acts: Celia, splendid carri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/62/) [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/) / [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/) / 62 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 62 “No, my Prince,” replied Celia; “I cannot help thinking you very handsome; but what good would riches be to me, and all the grand dresses and splendid carriages that you would give me, if the bad deeds which I should see you do every day made me hate and despise you?” **Who acts:** Celia, splendid carriages, you, grand dresses · **What happens:** reply, not help, think, be, give, see · **To what, where:** you, bad deeds, Celia · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Celia, splendid carriages, you, grand dresses), 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:pg503:39:62 # text = “No, my Prince,” replied Celia; “I cannot help thinking you very handsome; but what good would riches be to me, and all the grand dresses and splendid carriages that you would give me, if the bad deeds which I should see you do every day made me hate and despise you?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Celia Celia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 16 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 nsubj _ _ 23 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 nsubj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 carriages carriage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 if if SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 48 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 obj _ _ 49 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 acl:relcl _ _ 52 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 ccomp _ _ 54 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 55 det _ _ 55 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl:unmarked _ _ 56 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 57 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 hate hate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 xcomp _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 despise despise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 conj _ _ 61 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 60 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | Celia | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | can | Celia | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | Celia *not said here* | you | | | | handsome *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | to Celia | tree rules | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | would | splendid carriages | the bad deeds | Celia | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | should | Celia | the bad deeds | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **make** *in a quote* | past | all grand dresses and splendid carriages | Celia | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **hate** *in a quote* | infinitive | Celia *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **despise** *in a quote* | infinitive | Celia *not said here* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/63/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)