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title: This so delighted her that she begged the children to stay with her… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This so delighted her that she begged the children to stay with her altogether, and the boy answered that he would leave his sisters with her gladly, but that he himself had serious business on hand and must not linger in pursuit of it. Who acts: woman, boy. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 49

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This so delighted her that she begged the children to stay with her altogether, and the boy answered that he would leave his sisters with her gladly, but that he himself had serious business on hand and must not linger in pursuit of it.

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**Who acts:** woman, boy · **What happens:** beg, stay, answer, leave, have, not linger · **To what, where:** children, sisters, serious business, hand, pursuit, lodging · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, boy), 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:pg3027:33:49
# text = This so delighted her that she begged the children to stay with her altogether, and the boy answered that he would leave his sisters with her gladly, but that he himself had serious business on hand and must not linger in pursuit of it.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
28	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	linger	linger	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | woman |  | the children |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with woman; altogether *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | would | boy |  | boy's sisters |  |  | with woman; gladly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient with she=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | boy | serious business |  | hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **linger** | must | boy *not said here* |  |  | pursuit of lodging |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location |
| 7 | **pursue** |  |  | lodging |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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