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title: “Malicious Sprite,” she cried, “why do you begrudge me my playmates—… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Malicious Sprite,” she cried, “why do you begrudge me my playmates—the greatest delight of my lonely hours? Who acts: Malicious, you, lonely hours. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 59

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“Malicious Sprite,” she cried, “why do you begrudge me my playmates—the greatest delight of my lonely hours?

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**Who acts:** Malicious, you, lonely hours · **What happens:** cry, begrudge, delight · **To what, where:** greatest delight, Malicious · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malicious, you, lonely hours), 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:pg3282:31:59
# text = “Malicious Sprite,” she cried, “why do you begrudge me my playmates—the greatest delight of my lonely hours?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Malicious	Malicious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Sprite	Sprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	begrudge	begrudge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	playmates	playmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Malicious | the greatest delight of my lonely hours |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begrudge** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Malicious |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **delight** *in a quote* |  | my lonely hours |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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 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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