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title: Very soon the rajah himself heard of the jogi, and began regularly t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon the rajah himself heard of the jogi, and began regularly to visit him to seek his counsel and to ask his prayers that a son might be vouchsafed to him. Who acts: rajah. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 37

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Very soon the rajah himself heard of the jogi, and began regularly to visit him to seek his counsel and to ask his prayers that a son might be vouchsafed to him.

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**Who acts:** rajah · **What happens:** hear, begin, visit, seek, ask, vouchsafe · **To what, where:** rajah, counsel, prayers, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (rajah), 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:pg3454:4:37
# text = Very soon the rajah himself heard of the jogi, and began regularly to visit him to seek his counsel and to ask his prayers that a son might be vouchsafed to him.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rajah	rajah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	jogi	jogi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	vouchsafed	vouchsafe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the rajah |  |  |  |  | of the jogi | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of jogi=Stimulus |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the rajah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | regularly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | the rajah *not said here* | rajah |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the rajah *not said here* | rajah's counsel |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the rajah *not said here* | rajah's prayers |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prayer=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **vouchsafe** | might · passive |  | a son | rajah |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pray** |  | rajah |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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 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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