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title: But, presently, after much thought, he begged the merchant to consid… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, presently, after much thought, he begged the merchant to consider whether he did not know of some young prince to whom such treasures might be useful. Who acts: Wali, such treasures. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its depe
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 24

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But, presently, after much thought, he begged the merchant to consider whether he did not know of some young prince to whom such treasures might be useful.

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**Who acts:** Wali, such treasures · **What happens:** beg, consider, not know, be · **To what, where:** merchant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali, such treasures), 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:pg3282:34:24
# text = But, presently, after much thought, he begged the merchant to consider whether he did not know of some young prince to whom such treasures might be useful.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nmod	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Wali | the merchant |  |  | after much thought |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **consider** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Wali |  |  |  |  | of some young prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of prince=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | might | such treasures |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |

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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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