--- title: Full of remorse and sorrow, he begged for her forgiveness, and Helen… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Full of remorse and sorrow, he begged for her forgiveness, and Helena, only too pleased to have got him back again, did not, you may be sure, keep him waiting very long for her pardon, and so they were married and returned to Helena’s castle, where they are no doubt still sitting happily together un --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/52/) [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/) / [The Biter Bit, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/) / 52 # The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 52 Full of remorse and sorrow, he begged for her forgiveness, and Helena, only too pleased to have got him back again, did not, you may be sure, keep him waiting very long for her pardon, and so they were married and returned to Helena’s castle, where they are no doubt still sitting happily together under the lime-tree. **Who acts:** Full remorse, you, Prince, remorse, doubt, Helena · **What happens:** beg, get back, not do, be, keep, wait · **To what, where:** Helena, Prince, remorse, doubt, lime tree This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Full remorse, you, Prince, remorse), 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:pg7277:29:52 # text = Full of remorse and sorrow, he begged for her forgiveness, and Helena, only too pleased to have got him back again, did not, you may be sure, keep him waiting very long for her pardon, and so they were married and returned to Helena’s castle, where they are no doubt still sitting happily together under the lime-tree. 1 Full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 remorse remorse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Helena Helena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux _ _ 21 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 again again ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 xcomp _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 pardon pardon NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 conj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 Helena Helena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’s 's PART POS _ 51 case _ _ 53 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 59 advmod _ _ 56 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 57 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 cop _ _ 58 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 59 det _ _ 59 doubt doubt NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 appos _ _ 60 still still ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 61 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 59 acl _ _ 62 happily happily ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 63 together together ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 64 under under ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 66 lime lime NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 67 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 66 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Full remorse and sorrow | Helena | | | | for Helena's forgiveness | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for forgiveness=Topic | | 2 | **get back** | to-infinitive · perfect | Full remorse and sorrow *not said here* | Prince | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **do** | past | Full remorse and sorrow *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | may | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | infinitive | | Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wait** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | for Helena's pardon; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **marry** | past · passive | | remorse | | | | to Helena's castle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to castle=Co-Patient | | 8 | **return** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is a** | present | remorse | no doubt | | | still | | tree rules | | 10 | **sit** | gerund | no doubt *not said here* | | | the lime tree | | happily, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | | 11 | **pardon** | | Helena | | | | | | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/53/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/)