--- title: The next day the second sister had a fancy for bananas and begged so… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The next day the second sister had a fancy for bananas and begged so hard, that, though Maria had declared she would never do such a thing again, at last she consented, and went down the rope into the king’s garden. Who acts: second sister, Maria. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/59/) [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/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/) / 59 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 59 The next day the second sister had a fancy for bananas and begged so hard, that, though Maria had declared she would never do such a thing again, at last she consented, and went down the rope into the king’s garden. **Who acts:** second sister, Maria · **What happens:** have, beg, declare, not do, consent, go down · **To what, where:** fancy, that, thing, last, rope, garden · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second sister, Maria), 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:pg2435:38:59 # text = The next day the second sister had a fancy for bananas and begged so hard, that, though Maria had declared she would never do such a thing again, at last she consented, and went down the rope into the king’s garden. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 Maria Maria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 declared declare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 27 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 29 det:predet _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obl _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 39 down down ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’s 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the second sister | a fancy | | | day | for bananas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the second sister *not said here* | that | | | | hard *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Maria | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **do** | would | Maria | such thing | | | again | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 5 | **consent** | past | Maria | | | last | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go down** | past | Maria *not said here* | the rope | | the king's garden | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient rope=Extent | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/60/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/)