--- title: ‘Oh, my Lord! whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Oh, my Lord! whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below, in the court of the palace, is a pedlar with such beautiful things that I cannot help feeling annoyed at having so little money to spare.’ Who acts: countenance, Lord, I, such beautiful things. 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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 (countenance, Lord, I, such beautiful things), 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:pg7277:7:9 # text = ‘Oh, my Lord! whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below, in the court of the palace, is a pedlar with such beautiful things that I cannot help feeling annoyed at having so little money to spare.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 conj _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 below below ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pedlar pedlar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 41 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 xcomp _ _ 42 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 at at SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | my countenance | | | | | anxious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** | present | my Lord | | | | | down *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a pedlar | | | | with such beautiful things | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **help** | can | I | such beautiful things | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **feel** *not said to happen* | gerund | such beautiful things *not said here* | | | | | annoyed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **have** | gerund | such beautiful things *not said here* | little money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 7 | **spare** | to-infinitive | such beautiful things *not said here* | | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/10/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/)