--- title: ‘Oh, I will obey you exactly,’ cried the queen, ‘and if you can help… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Oh, I will obey you exactly,’ cried the queen, ‘and if you can help me you shall have in return anything you ask for.’ Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, 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/pg641/12/20/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/) / 20 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 20 ‘Oh, I will obey you exactly,’ cried the queen, ‘and if you can help me you shall have in return anything you ask for.’ **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** obey, cry, help, have, ask · **To what, where:** you, queen, me, anything This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. 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:pg641:12:20 # text = ‘Oh, I will obey you exactly,’ cried the queen, ‘and if you can help me you shall have in return anything you ask for.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 obey obey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obl _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obey** | future | I | you | | | | exactly *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | the queen and ‘ | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | | 3 | **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | | me | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **have** | shall | you | | | anything | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/21/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)