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title: “O most delicious person!” he answered, “you are very generous, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “O most delicious person!” he answered, “you are very generous, and the choice of my life lies in truth in your hands; but I beg one favour of you. Who acts: person, you, choice. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 88

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“O most delicious person!” he answered, “you are very generous, and the choice of my life lies in truth in your hands; but I beg one favour of you.

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**Who acts:** person, you, choice · **What happens:** answer, be, lie, beg, favour · **To what, where:** truth, one favour, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, you, choice), 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:pg3282:3:88
# text = “O most delicious person!” he answered, “you are very generous, and the choice of my life lies in truth in your hands; but I beg one favour of you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | person |  |  |  |  | of most delicious person | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | generous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | the choice of my life |  |  | truth |  | in your hands | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in truth=Location |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | person | one favour of you |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
| 5 | **favour** *in a quote* |  |  | you |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling 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 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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