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title: “One day he so pressed to know what would pleasure the prince, that… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “One day he so pressed to know what would pleasure the prince, that the latter said: “I have only one wish, and that I will name to you in private.” Who acts: king, latter, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 8

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“One day he so pressed to know what would pleasure the prince, that the latter said: “I have only one wish, and that I will name to you in private.”

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**Who acts:** king, latter, I · **What happens:** press, know, pleasure, say, have, name · **To what, where:** prince, one wish, you, private · **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 (king, latter, I), 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:pg3282:5:8
# text = “One day he so pressed to know what would pleasure the prince, that the latter said: “I have only one wish, and that I will name to you in private.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	latter	latter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** *in a quote* | past | king |  |  |  | day |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pleasure** *in a quote* | would |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the latter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | present | I | one wish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 6 | **name** | future | I |  | you | private |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to you=Attribute |

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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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