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title: I am here on behalf of the Queen your mother, with the object of del… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I am here on behalf of the Queen your mother, with the object of delivering your Highness; to prove which, behold this portrait which she gave me herself.’ Who acts: I, object, portrait. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 44

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I am here on behalf of the Queen your mother, with the object of delivering your Highness; to prove which, behold this portrait which she gave me herself.’

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**Who acts:** I, object, portrait · **What happens:** be, deliver, prove, give · **To what, where:** behalf, Highness, portrait, Princess, me

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (I, object, portrait), 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:pg640:20:44
# text = I am here on behalf of the Queen your mother, with the object of delivering your Highness; to prove which, behold this portrait which she gave me herself.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	delivering	deliver	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Highness	highness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  | behalf of the Queen |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | gerund | the object *not said here* | your Highness |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent highness=Patient |
| 3 | **prove** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this portrait |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | this portrait | Princess | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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