The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 47

“Madam, Bruno has stolen my pot of pinks, so I have nothing but my silver ring; but I beg you to accept it as a proof of my gratitude.”

Who acts: Queen · What happens: steal, have, beg, accept, proof · To what, where: Madam, nothing, you, pot, gratitude

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 stolen	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stolen	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stolen	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stolen	aux
6	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pot	nmod:poss
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stolen	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 pinks	case
10	pinks	pink	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pot	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stolen	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 have	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ring	cc
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ring	nmod:poss
18	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ring	amod
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nothing	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 beg	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 beg	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 beg	nsubj
23	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stolen	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 beg	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 accept	mark
26	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 beg	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 accept	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 proof	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 proof	det
30	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accept	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 gratitude	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 gratitude	nmod:poss
33	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 proof	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stolen	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 stolen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	steal in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Madam			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary pot=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	the Queen = queen	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	beg speech: request in a quote	present	the Queen = queen		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	accept not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Queen = queen not said here	pot		as a proof of my gratitude	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as proof=Attribute
5	proof in a quote			my gratitude			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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