--- title: Promise me, I beg of you, that you will marry according to my wishes… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Promise me, I beg of you, that you will marry according to my wishes’; and he then named the daughter of a neighbouring King who he was anxious should be his son’s wife. Who acts: you, I, King, daughter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, King, daughter), 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:pg7277:43:7 # text = Promise me, I beg of you, that you will marry according to my wishes’; and he then named the daughter of a neighbouring King who he was anxious should be his son’s wife. 1 Promise promise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 case _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 22 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 neighbouring neighbour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’s 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | imperative | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I | | | | | of you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **marry** | future | you | | | | | accord my wishes | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **name** | past | King | the daughter of a neighbouring King | | | then | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | | 6 | **neighbour** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | the daughter of a neighbouring King | | | | | anxious *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | should | | | | | | 's King's son | tree rules | | 9 | **wish** | | my | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/8/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Huntsmen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/43/)