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title: Upon this the King commanded Graciosa to dismount and to beg the Duc… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this the King commanded Graciosa to dismount and to beg the Duchess to honour her by mounting her horse. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 80

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Upon this the King commanded Graciosa to dismount and to beg the Duchess to honour her by mounting her horse.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** command, dismount, beg, honour, mount · **To what, where:** Graciosa, Duchess, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg540:23:80
# text = Upon this the King commanded Graciosa to dismount and to beg the Duchess to honour her by mounting her horse.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dismount	dismount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	mounting	mount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | the King | Graciosa |  |  |  | upon this | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent graciosa=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dismount** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  | the Duchess |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent duchess=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **honour** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | Graciosa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mount** | gerund | the King *not said here* | Graciosa's horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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