--- title: ‘Take my club to her Majesty,’ said he, ‘and tell her that if she sm… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Take my club to her Majesty,’ said he, ‘and tell her that if she smells the end of it she will find it wonderfully reviving.’ Who acts: enchanter, Queen. 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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 (enchanter, Queen), 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:pg7277:11:133 # text = ‘Take my club to her Majesty,’ said he, ‘and tell her that if she smells the end of it she will find it wonderfully reviving.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ‘ VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 reviving revive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | infinitive | | my club | | Queen's Majesty | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent club=Theme to majesty=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **‘** | infinitive | enchanter | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | enchanter *not said here* | | Queen | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 5 | **smell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Queen | the end of Majesty | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | | 6 | **find** | future | Queen | club | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 7 | **revive** | gerund | Queen *not said here* | | | | | wonderfully *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/134/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)