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title: Then you must beg, as a last favour, that your body may be anointed… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then you must beg, as a last favour, that your body may be anointed with oil so that you may burn the more quickly and be spared torture. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 61

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Then you must beg, as a last favour, that your body may be anointed with oil so that you may burn the more quickly and be spared torture.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** beg, anoint, burn, spare · **To what, where:** body, torture · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:410`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:5:61
# text = Then you must beg, as a last favour, that your body may be anointed with oil so that you may burn the more quickly and be spared torture.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | must | you |  |  |  | then | as a last favour | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **anoint** | may · passive |  | your body |  |  |  | with oil | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with oil=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | may | you |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **spare** | infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | torture |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: torture=Asset |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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