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title: Rather unwillingly Marzinne gave him leave, and bade Bernez take the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Rather unwillingly Marzinne gave him leave, and bade Bernez take the key and unlock the door. Who acts: Marzinne, bade. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 67

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Rather unwillingly Marzinne gave him leave, and bade Bernez take the key and unlock the door.

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**Who acts:** Marzinne, bade · **What happens:** give, leave, take, unlock · **To what, where:** beggar, key, door

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marzinne, bade), 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:pg3454:25:67
# text = Rather unwillingly Marzinne gave him leave, and bade Bernez take the key and unlock the door.
1	Rather	rather	X	GW	_	4	cc	_	_
2	unwillingly	unwillingly	X	RB	_	1	goeswith	_	_
3	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	unlock	unlock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Marzinne |  | beggar |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | Marzinne *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | bade | the key |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 4 | **unlock** | infinitive | bade *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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