--- title: He begged her to consider again how unhappy the wicked Queen would m… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He begged her to consider again how unhappy the wicked Queen would make her, and how, if she would but marry him, all the fairy palace would be hers, and his one thought would be to please her. Who acts: Prince, wicked Queen, Queen, fairy palace. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Gr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/) / 34 # The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 34 He begged her to consider again how unhappy the wicked Queen would make her, and how, if she would but marry him, all the fairy palace would be hers, and his one thought would be to please her. **Who acts:** Prince, wicked Queen, Queen, fairy palace, one thought · **What happens:** beg, consider, make, marry, be, think · **To what, where:** Princess, Prince This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, wicked Queen, Queen, fairy palace), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:24:34 # text = He begged her to consider again how unhappy the wicked Queen would make her, and how, if she would but marry him, all the fairy palace would be hers, and his one thought would be to please her. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 consider consider VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 32 det:predet _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:outer _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Prince | | Princess | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **consider** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | | | unhappy *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | would | the wicked Queen | Princess | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | | 4 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Queen | Prince | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | would | the fairy palace | Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | would | Prince's one thought | | | | | please *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **think** | | Prince | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/35/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/)