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title: “Yesterday Masilo beheld Dilah, and ever since he has entreated me t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yesterday Masilo beheld Dilah, and ever since he has entreated me to give him back his daughter.” Who acts: Yesterday, Masilo. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 49

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“Yesterday Masilo beheld Dilah, and ever since he has entreated me to give him back his daughter.”

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**Who acts:** Yesterday, Masilo · **What happens:** behold, entreat, give back · **To what, where:** Dilah, Thakane, daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yesterday, Masilo), 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:pg3282:16:49
# text = “Yesterday Masilo beheld Dilah, and ever since he has entreated me to give him back his daughter.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yesterday	Yesterday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Dilah	Dilah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
9	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	back	back	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** *in a quote* | past | Yesterday | Dilah |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dilah=Stimulus |
| 2 | **entreat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Masilo | Thakane |  |  | ever |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Masilo *not said here* |  | Masilo's daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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