--- title: ‘Yes, madam,’ answered the King, ‘I am prepared to respect you as mu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Yes, madam,’ answered the King, ‘I am prepared to respect you as much as a Fairy can be respected, if you will give me back my Princess.’ Who acts: madam, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/9/) [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 Blue Bird, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/) / 9 # The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 9 ‘Yes, madam,’ answered the King, ‘I am prepared to respect you as much as a Fairy can be respected, if you will give me back my Princess.’ **Who acts:** madam, you · **What happens:** answer, prepare, respect, give back · **To what, where:** King, I, you, Fairy, Princess, me This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, 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:pg7277:3:9 # text = ‘Yes, madam,’ answered the King, ‘I am prepared to respect you as much as a Fairy can be respected, if you will give me back my Princess.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 madam madam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 respect respect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 respected respect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 back back ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | madam | | the King | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | | 2 | **prepare** | present · passive | | I | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **respect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **respect** | can · passive | | a Fairy | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 5 | **give back** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | my Princess | me | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient princess=Theme | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/10/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/3/)