--- title: ‘Sire,’ said Genesta to Farda-Kinbras, ‘I have taken the liberty of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Sire,’ said Genesta to Farda-Kinbras, ‘I have taken the liberty of appointing your Court as a meeting-place for all the Fairies who could spare the time to come; and I hope you can arrange to hold the great ball, which we have once in a hundred years, on this occasion.’ Who acts: Sire, I, liberty, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/) / 66 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 66 ‘Sire,’ said Genesta to Farda-Kinbras, ‘I have taken the liberty of appointing your Court as a meeting-place for all the Fairies who could spare the time to come; and I hope you can arrange to hold the great ball, which we have once in a hundred years, on this occasion.’ **Who acts:** Sire, I, liberty, Fairies, you, we · **What happens:** say, take, appoint, spare, come, hope · **To what, where:** Farda, liberty, Court, great ball, occasion · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, I, liberty, Fairies), 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:pg7277:17:66 # text = ‘Sire,’ said Genesta to Farda-Kinbras, ‘I have taken the liberty of appointing your Court as a meeting-place for all the Fairies who could spare the time to come; and I hope you can arrange to hold the great ball, which we have once in a hundred years, on this occasion.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Genesta Genesta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Farda Farda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Kinbras Kinbras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 liberty liberty NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 appointing appoint VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 arrange arrange VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 ccomp _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 obj _ _ 52 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 53 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 54 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 53 advmod _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ _ 58 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 on on ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 62 det _ _ 62 occasion occasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sire | | Farda and Kinbras | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to farda=Recipient | | 2 | **take** | present · perfect | I | the liberty | | | | as a meeting place for all Fairies | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme as place=Attribute | | 3 | **appoint** | gerund | the liberty *not said here* | your Court | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | | 4 | **spare** | could | all Fairies | | | | time | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | all Fairies *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **arrange** | can | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **hold** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the great ball | | this occasion | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on occasion=Location | | 9 | **have** | present | we | the great ball | | | year | once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/67/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/)