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title: ‘Princess,’ she said, ‘your regrets are so piteous that I have come… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Princess,’ she said, ‘your regrets are so piteous that I have come to offer you the choice of goodness or beauty. Who acts: Princess, I, your. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 24

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‘Princess,’ she said, ‘your regrets are so piteous that I have come to offer you the choice of goodness or beauty.

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**Who acts:** Princess, I, your · **What happens:** say, ‘, be, come, offer, regret · **To what, where:** Princess, regrets, choice, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, I, your), 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:pg540:35:24
# text = ‘Princess,’ she said, ‘your regrets are so piteous that I have come to offer you the choice of goodness or beauty.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	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	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	‘	‘	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	regrets	regret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	piteous	piteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | Princess | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **‘** | infinitive |  | your regrets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Princess |  |  |  |  | piteous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **offer** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the choice of goodness or beauty | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal choice=Theme |
| 6 | **regret** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom regret «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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