--- title: However, I think I have settled her pretensions, and I hope you will… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, I think I have settled her pretensions, and I hope you will be very happy and enjoy the freedom I have won for you.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/18/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Princess Mayblossom, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/) / 18 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 18 However, I think I have settled her pretensions, and I hope you will be very happy and enjoy the freedom I have won for you.’ **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** think, settle, hope, be, enjoy, win · **To what, where:** pretensions, freedom · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg540:5:18 # text = However, I think I have settled her pretensions, and I hope you will be very happy and enjoy the freedom I have won for you.’ 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 pretensions pretension NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 enjoy enjoy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | however *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **settle** | present · perfect | I | Dwarf's pretensions | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pretension=Location | | 3 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is** | future | you | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **enjoy** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the freedom | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer freedom=Stimulus | | 6 | **win** | present · perfect | I | the freedom *not said here* | | | | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme for you=Beneficiary | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/19/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/5/)