--- title: ‘I am quite ready to help you, and do all I can to serve you, madam,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I am quite ready to help you, and do all I can to serve you, madam,’ he said, ‘only I beg you will be good enough to hide me from your husband, for I should not like to be eaten at all.’ Who acts: I, boy, 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, boy, 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:pg540:16:58 # text = ‘I am quite ready to help you, and do all I can to serve you, madam,’ he said, ‘only I beg you will be good enough to hide me from your husband, for I should not like to be eaten at all.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 obj _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 33 enough enough ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 for for SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 xcomp _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | I *not said here* | all | | | | madam *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 4 | **serve** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | future | you | | | | | enough, good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **hide** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | from your husband | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Patient from husband=Beneficiary | | 9 | **not** **like** | should | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 10 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* | | | all | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/59/) - ↑ back to [Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/)