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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 24

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The puma greeted him with joy, and begged he might have some of the famous milk as soon as possible, for he was very thirsty.

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**Who acts:** puma, noise · **What happens:** greet, beg, have, be · **To what, where:** noise, some · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma, noise), 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:pg3282:37:24
# text = The puma greeted him with joy, and begged he might have some of the famous milk as soon as possible, for he was very thirsty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the puma |  | noise |  |  | with joy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the puma *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | might | noise | some |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | noise |  |  |  |  | thirsty *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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