--- title: ‘“I wish you to take this little Princess to my cousin, the Giant of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘“I wish you to take this little Princess to my cousin, the Giant of the Green Castle, at once,” she replied, “and beg him from me to make her work day and night upon his beautiful tapestry.” Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Plac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/63/) [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/) / [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/) / 63 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 63 ‘“I wish you to take this little Princess to my cousin, the Giant of the Green Castle, at once,” she replied, “and beg him from me to make her work day and night upon his beautiful tapestry.” **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** wish, take, reply, beg, make · **To what, where:** you, little Princess, cousin, clanging · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg7277:38:63 # text = ‘“I wish you to take this little Princess to my cousin, the Giant of the Green Castle, at once,” she replied, “and beg him from me to make her work day and night upon his beautiful tapestry.” 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 42 upon upon ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 tapestry tapestry NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Princess | | you | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | this little Princess | | my cousin | | once *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to cousin=Destination | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | | | clanging | | | from Princess | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | day | upon clanging's beautiful tapestry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/64/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/)