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title: ‘I am sorry not to oblige you, Gossip, but he need expect no mercy f… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am sorry not to oblige you, Gossip, but he need expect no mercy from me unless he will marry my goddaughter, whom you see yonder looking so pretty and charming. Who acts: I, King, you, goddaughter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 56

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‘I am sorry not to oblige you, Gossip, but he need expect no mercy from me unless he will marry my goddaughter, whom you see yonder looking so pretty and charming.

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**Who acts:** I, King, you, goddaughter · **What happens:** be, not oblige, need, expect, marry, see · **To what, where:** you, mercy, goddaughter

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (I, King, you, goddaughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:4:56
# text = ‘I am sorry not to oblige you, Gossip, but he need expect no mercy from me unless he will marry my goddaughter, whom you see yonder looking so pretty and charming.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	oblige	oblige	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	goddaughter	goddaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **oblige** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  | Gossip *obl* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **expect** *not said to happen* | infinitive | King *not said here* | no mercy |  |  |  | from me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Theme |
| 5 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | King | my goddaughter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddaughter=Patient |
| 6 | **see** | present | you | my goddaughter |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | gerund | my goddaughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **charm** | gerund | my goddaughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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.

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