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title: And without any further delay he begged the queen to consent to thei… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And without any further delay he begged the queen to consent to their betrothal, for the marriage must take place in his own country. Who acts: beauty, marriage, eyes. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 58

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And without any further delay he begged the queen to consent to their betrothal, for the marriage must take place in his own country.

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**Who acts:** beauty, marriage, eyes · **What happens:** beg, consent, take, betroth · **To what, where:** queen, place, own country

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty, marriage, eyes), 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:pg2435:23:58
# text = And without any further delay he begged the queen to consent to their betrothal, for the marriage must take place in his own country.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | beauty |  | the queen |  |  | without any further delay | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |
| 2 | **consent** | to-infinitive | beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to eyes's betrothal | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to betrothal=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | must | the marriage | place |  | beauty's own country |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in country=Location |
| 4 | **betroth** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom betrothal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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