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title: He desired of her one of them in marriage, leaving to her choice whi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He desired of her one of them in marriage, leaving to her choice which of the two she would bestow on him. Who acts: One, lady. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 4

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He desired of her one of them in marriage, leaving to her choice which of the two she would bestow on him.

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**Who acts:** One, lady · **What happens:** desire, leave, bestow · **To what, where:** marriage, choice

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, lady), 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:pg503:40:4
# text = He desired of her one of them in marriage, leaving to her choice which of the two she would bestow on him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | One |  |  | marriage |  | of lady's one of beauties | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | One *not said here* |  |  | lady's choice |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to choice=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bestow** | would | lady | lady's choice |  |  |  | of the two; on One | tree rules |

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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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