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title: He did not have to wait long before one of the royal servants passed… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not have to wait long before one of the royal servants passed by and bought all the apples, begging as he did so that the merchant should return and bring some more. Who acts: Tiidu, merchant. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its dep
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 38

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He did not have to wait long before one of the royal servants passed by and bought all the apples, begging as he did so that the merchant should return and bring some more.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, merchant · **What happens:** not have, wait, pass by, buy, beg, do · **To what, where:** royal servants, apples, more

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, merchant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2435:12:38
# text = He did not have to wait long before one of the royal servants passed by and bought all the apples, begging as he did so that the merchant should return and bring some more.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  | before one of the royal servants | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before one=Location |
| 3 | **pass by** | participle |  | the royal servants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **buy** | past | Tiidu *not said here* | all apples |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | past | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **return** | should | the merchant |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **bring** | infinitive | the merchant *not said here* | some more |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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