--- title: Tomorrow I am to fight this ugly, overgrown Prince, and I beg you to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Tomorrow I am to fight this ugly, overgrown Prince, and I beg you to honour the combat with your presence, and prove to the world that there is nothing in a name, and that you deign to accept Mannikin as your knight.’ Who acts: I, nothing, 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 (I, nothing, 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:pg7277:16:27 # text = Tomorrow I am to fight this ugly, overgrown Prince, and I beg you to honour the combat with your presence, and prove to the world that there is nothing in a name, and that you deign to accept Mannikin as your knight.’ 1 Tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 7 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 overgrown overgrown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 honour honour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 combat combat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 nsubj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 deign deign VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 Mannikin Mannikin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | present | I | | | | tomorrow | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I | | you | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **honour** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the combat | | | | with your presence | tree rules | | 4 | **prove** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | to the world | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to world=Experiencer | | 5 | **be** | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **deign** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **accept** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Mannikin | | | | as your knight | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme as knight=Attribute | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/28/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/)