--- title: ‘My beautiful dove,’ replied the emperor, ‘both I and all I possess… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘My beautiful dove,’ replied the emperor, ‘both I and all I possess are yours, so ask your will, and you shall have it.’ Who acts: beautiful dove, I, both, you. 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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 (beautiful dove, I, both, 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:pg641:40:56 # text = ‘My beautiful dove,’ replied the emperor, ‘both I and all I possess are yours, so ask your will, and you shall have it.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 possess possess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | My beautiful dove | the emperor | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | | 2 | **possess** | present | I | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is a** | present | both | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | shall | you | dove | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/57/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/)