--- title: ‘You may not regret me, Princess,’ he said sadly, ‘for I fear that y… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘You may not regret me, Princess,’ he said sadly, ‘for I fear that you do not love me well enough; but I foresee that you will more than once regret that you left this fairy palace where we have been so happy.’ Who acts: You, King, I, regret. 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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 (You, King, I, regret), 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:pg540:24:47 # text = ‘You may not regret me, Princess,’ he said sadly, ‘for I fear that you do not love me well enough; but I foresee that you will more than once regret that you left this fairy palace where we have been so happy.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 regret regret VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 26 enough enough ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 foresee foresee VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 once once SCONJ IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 regret regret NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 42 fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 49 advmod _ _ 45 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 46 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 47 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 49 cop _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **regret** | may | You | me | | | | Princess *vocative* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King | | | | | sadly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fear** | present | I | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **love** | present · do-support | you | me | | | | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 5 | **foresee** | present | I | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | past | regret | this fairy palace | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present · perfect | we | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/48/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/)