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title: But presently he took courage and delivered his harangue, bravely en… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But presently he took courage and delivered his harangue, bravely ending by begging the Princess to spare him the disappointment of going back without her. Who acts: messenger, disappointment. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tre
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 79

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But presently he took courage and delivered his harangue, bravely ending by begging the Princess to spare him the disappointment of going back without her.

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**Who acts:** messenger, disappointment · **What happens:** take, deliver, end, beg, spare, go back · **To what, where:** courage, harangue, Princess, messenger

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, disappointment), 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:pg503:28:79
# text = But presently he took courage and delivered his harangue, bravely ending by begging the Princess to spare him the disappointment of going back without her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	harangue	harangue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | messenger | courage |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **deliver** | past | messenger *not said here* | messenger's harangue |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harangue=Patient |
| 3 | **end** | gerund | messenger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | messenger *not said here* |  | the Princess |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |
| 5 | **spare** | to-infinitive | messenger *not said here* |  | messenger |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient disappointment=Asset |
| 6 | **go back** | gerund | the disappointment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without princess | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **harangue** |  | messenger |  |  |  |  |  | nom harangue «communication transitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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