--- title: ‘Madam,’ said Prince Curlicue, ‘I wish to be allowed to restore your… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Madam,’ said Prince Curlicue, ‘I wish to be allowed to restore your beloved Florimond to his natural form, since I cannot forget the tears you shed for him.’ Who acts: Madam, I, you, prince. 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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 (Madam, I, you, prince), 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:pg540:34:80 # text = ‘Madam,’ said Prince Curlicue, ‘I wish to be allowed to restore your beloved Florimond to his natural form, since I cannot forget the tears you shed for him.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 7 Curlicue Curlicue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Florimond Florimond PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 since since SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Madam | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **wish** | present | I | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **allow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **restore** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | your beloved Florimond | prince's natural form | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent florimond=Theme to form=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **forget** | can | I | the tears | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **shed** | past | you | the tears *not said here* | | | | for prince | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | | 7 | **form** | | prince | | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/81/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)