--- title: At the same moment a servant appeared with the golden bird in its go… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the same moment a servant appeared with the golden bird in its golden cage, and the Emperor begged the Prince to accept it with his love, and to forgive him the indignity he had suffered at his hands. Who acts: servant, Emperor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Merm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/84/) [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 Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/) / 84 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 84 At the same moment a servant appeared with the golden bird in its golden cage, and the Emperor begged the Prince to accept it with his love, and to forgive him the indignity he had suffered at his hands. **Who acts:** servant, Emperor · **What happens:** appear, beg, accept, forgive, suffer, love · **To what, where:** Prince, cage, emperor, indignity, hands This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, Emperor), 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:pg7277:52:84 # text = At the same moment a servant appeared with the golden bird in its golden cage, and the Emperor begged the Prince to accept it with his love, and to forgive him the indignity he had suffered at his hands. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 indignity indignity NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 suffered suffer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | a servant | | | | moment | with the golden bird in bird's golden cage | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the Emperor | | the Prince | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **accept** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Emperor *not said here* | cage | | | | with emperor's love | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **forgive** | to-infinitive | a servant *not said here* | emperor | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **suffer** | past · perfect | emperor | the indignity *not said here* | | emperor's hands | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indignity=Stimulus | | 6 | **love** | | emperor | | | | | | nom love «feeling 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/85/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/)