--- title: ‘I thank you, mighty King, for your gracious offer,’ answered Martin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I thank you, mighty King, for your gracious offer,’ answered Martin,’ ‘but I do not covet either gold, silver, or precious stones; yet if you will grant me a favour, give me, I beg, the ring from off the little finger of your royal hand. Who acts: I, you, your. 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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 (I, you, your), 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:pg640:33:71 # text = ‘I thank you, mighty King, for your gracious offer,’ answered Martin,’ ‘but I do not covet either gold, silver, or precious stones; yet if you will grant me a favour, give me, I beg, the ring from off the little finger of your royal hand. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 gracious gracious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Martin Martin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 covet covet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 25 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 34 yet yet ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 parataxis _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 51 from from ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 52 off off ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 58 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | I | | you | | | for your gracious offer; mighty King *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for offer=Attribute | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | Martin | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent martin=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **covet** | present · do-support | I | either gold and silver or precious stones | | | | | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme | | 4 | **grant** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | a favour | me | | yet | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal favour=Theme | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I | the ring | | the little finger of your royal hand | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient | | 7 | **offer** | | your | | | | | | nom offer «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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/72/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)