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title: On his arrival at the palace Becasigue pleaded his young master's ca… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On his arrival at the palace Becasigue pleaded his young master's cause as fervently as the king his father could have done, and entreated that the princess might be consulted in the matter. Who acts: father, Desiree, young master. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 10

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On his arrival at the palace Becasigue pleaded his young master's cause as fervently as the king his father could have done, and entreated that the princess might be consulted in the matter.

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**Who acts:** father, Desiree, young master · **What happens:** plead, do, entreat, consult, arrive, cause · **To what, where:** cause, arrival, princess, matter, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (father, Desiree, young master), 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:pg3027:23:10
# text = On his arrival at the palace Becasigue pleaded his young master's cause as fervently as the king his father could have done, and entreated that the princess might be consulted in the matter.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fervently	fervently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **plead** *speech: request* | past |  | Desiree's young master's cause |  | Desiree's arrival at the palace |  | as the king | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | could · perfect | Desiree's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **entreat** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **consult** | might · passive |  | the princess |  | the matter |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** |  | Desiree |  |  | the palace |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place |
| 6 | **cause** |  | Desiree's young master |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event 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 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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