--- title: He told his majesty; “It is not very convenient to part with her, as… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He told his majesty; “It is not very convenient to part with her, as, when she is gone, the rats and mice may destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige your majesty, I will fetch her.” Who acts: captain, majesty, Miss, rats. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and Hi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/66/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/) / 66 # English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 66 He told his majesty; “It is not very convenient to part with her, as, when she is gone, the rats and mice may destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige your majesty, I will fetch her.” **Who acts:** captain, majesty, Miss, rats · **What happens:** tell, not be, be, destroy, oblige, fetch · **To what, where:** majesty, goods, ship, Miss · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, majesty, Miss, rats), 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:pg7439:37:66 # text = He told his majesty; “It is not very convenient to part with her, as, when she is gone, the rats and mice may destroy the goods in the ship--but to oblige your majesty, I will fetch her.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 convenient convenient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 goods goods NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 oblige oblige VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 parataxis _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | captain | | captain's majesty | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | majesty | | | | | convenient *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Miss | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **destroy** *in a quote* | may | the rats and mice | the goods | | the ship | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient | | 5 | **oblige** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | your majesty | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Patient | | 6 | **fetch** *in a quote* | future | captain | Miss | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/67/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)