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title: 'I beg you to return with me, and frighten the jackal into paying me… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I beg you to return with me, and frighten the jackal into paying me what he owes me,' answered the sheep. ' Who acts: I, jackal. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 49

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'I beg you to return with me, and frighten the jackal into paying me what he owes me,' answered the sheep. '

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**Who acts:** I, jackal · **What happens:** beg, return, frighten, pay, owe, answer · **To what, where:** you, jackal, me, sheep

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, jackal), 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:pg3027:19:49
# text = 'I beg you to return with me, and frighten the jackal into paying me what he owes me,' answered the sheep. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	owes	owe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
23	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** | infinitive |  | the jackal |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jackal=Experiencer |
| 4 | **pay** | gerund |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset |
| 5 | **owe** | present | jackal |  | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal what=Theme |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the sheep |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sheep=Eventuality |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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