--- title: I have but just returned from doing your bidding, and, behold, you s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I have but just returned from doing your bidding, and, behold, you send me on another mission, and stake my head on its fulfilment, when your court is full of valiant young men, pining to win their spurs. Who acts: I, you, court, 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, court, 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:pg641:40:18 # text = I have but just returned from doing your bidding, and, behold, you send me on another mission, and stake my head on its fulfilment, when your court is full of valiant young men, pining to win their spurs. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 from from SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bidding bidding NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 behold behold INTJ UH _ 16 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 mission mission NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 stake stake VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 fulfilment fulfilment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 34 mark _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 valiant valiant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 pining pine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 spurs spur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **return** | past | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **do** | gerund | I *not said here* | your bidding | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | | 4 | **send** | present | you | | me | another mission | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 5 | **stake** | infinitive | | my head | | head's fulfilment | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | your court | | | | | of valiant young men; full *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **pine** | gerund | your court *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **win** | to-infinitive | your court *not said here* | men's spurs | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Eventuality | | 9 | **bid** | | your | | | | | | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **fulfil** | | head | | | | | | nom fulfilment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **spur** | | men *= man* | | | | | | nom spur «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 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/19/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/)