--- title: My Ambassador has orders, therefore, to make arrangements for the Pr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: My Ambassador has orders, therefore, to make arrangements for the Princess to come and be married to me without delay--for I attach no importance at all to the farrago of nonsense which you have caused to be published all over the world about this Ice Mountain. Who acts: Ambassador, I, farrago. 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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 (Ambassador, I, farrago), 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:pg7277:16:47 # text = My Ambassador has orders, therefore, to make arrangements for the Princess to come and be married to me without delay--for I attach no importance at all to the farrago of nonsense which you have caused to be published all over the world about this Ice Mountain. 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 Ambassador ambassador NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 arrangements arrangement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 attach attach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 importance importance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 farrago farrago NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 published publish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 xcomp _ _ 43 all all ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 about about ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 nsubj _ _ 49 Ice Ice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | My Ambassador | orders | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | arrangements | | | | for the Princess; therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent arrangement=Product for princess=Beneficiary | | 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **marry** | infinitive · passive | | | me | | | without delay | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to i=Co-Patient | | 5 | **attach** | present | I | no importance | | all | | to the farrago of nonsense | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent importance=Patient to farrago=Co-Patient | | 6 | **cause** | present · perfect | the farrago of nonsense | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **publish** | to-infinitive · passive | the farrago of nonsense *not said here* | | | the world | | about Ice Mountain | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/48/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/)