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title: “Be pleased to order your waiting-maids to accept the silks and velv… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Be pleased to order your waiting-maids to accept the silks and velvets, and let your women trim their head-dresses with the jewels; these are no special treasures. Who acts: you, women, these. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 83

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“Be pleased to order your waiting-maids to accept the silks and velvets, and let your women trim their head-dresses with the jewels; these are no special treasures.

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**Who acts:** you, women, these · **What happens:** be, order, accept, let, trim · **To what, where:** waiting maids, silks, head dresses, special treasures

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, women, these), 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:pg2435:5:83
# text = “Be pleased to order your waiting-maids to accept the silks and velvets, and let your women trim their head-dresses with the jewels; these are no special treasures.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	velvets	velvet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	trim	trim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	xcomp	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
33	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | your waiting maids |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme |
| 3 | **accept** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the silks and velvets |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Theme |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **trim** *in a quote* | present | your women | women's head dresses |  |  |  | with the jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Destination with jewel=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | these | no special treasures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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