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title: The princess then took her father into her confidence, and begged hi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess then took her father into her confidence, and begged him to advise her what courtesy she might return to one who persisted in making her such presents. Who acts: princess, courtesy. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with i
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 42

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The princess then took her father into her confidence, and begged him to advise her what courtesy she might return to one who persisted in making her such presents.

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**Who acts:** princess, courtesy · **What happens:** take, beg, advise, return, persist, make · **To what, where:** father, confidence, man, princess, one, such presents

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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 (princess, courtesy), 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:pg3282:34:42
# text = The princess then took her father into her confidence, and begged him to advise her what courtesy she might return to one who persisted in making her such presents.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
18	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	persisted	persist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the princess | princess's father |  | princess's confidence | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme into confidence=Destination |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the princess *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **advise** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* |  | princess |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **return** | might | courtesy |  | one |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme to one=Destination |
| 5 | **persist** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | gerund |  | princess's such presents |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset present=Product |
| 7 | **confide** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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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