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title: ‘Will your Highness please to taste any of them?’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Will your Highness please to taste any of them?’ Who acts: Highness. 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.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 27

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‘Will your Highness please to taste any of them?’

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**Who acts:** Highness · **What happens:** taste · **To what, where:** any

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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 (Highness), 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:pg540:5:27
# text = ‘Will your Highness please to taste any of them?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | future | your Highness | any |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme any=Attribute |

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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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