--- title: Only, he begged the youngest sister to let him keep the little gold… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Only, he begged the youngest sister to let him keep the little gold cap which, like the others, she wore on her head; and then he helped them, each in her turn, into the basket. Who acts: accident, sister. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/67/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/) / 67 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 67 Only, he begged the youngest sister to let him keep the little gold cap which, like the others, she wore on her head; and then he helped them, each in her turn, into the basket. **Who acts:** accident, sister · **What happens:** beg, let, keep, wear, help · **To what, where:** youngest sister, accident, little gold cap, others, head, asses · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (accident, sister), 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:pg3027:5:67 # text = Only, he begged the youngest sister to let him keep the little gold cap which, like the others, she wore on her head; and then he helped them, each in her turn, into the basket. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | accident | | the youngest sister | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | accident | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | accident *not said here* | the little gold cap | | | | like the others | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | | 4 | **wear** | past | sister | the others *not said here* | | sister's head | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent other=Source | | 5 | **help** | past | accident | asses *= ass* | | the basket | then | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/5/)