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title: The lad asked for these things and obtained them instantly, for the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lad asked for these things and obtained them instantly, for the King thought that for very shame he could not refuse to give them, and so Dapplegrim got new shoes, and they were good ones. Who acts: lad, King, Dapplegrim, shoes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 50

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The lad asked for these things and obtained them instantly, for the King thought that for very shame he could not refuse to give them, and so Dapplegrim got new shoes, and they were good ones.

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**Who acts:** lad, King, Dapplegrim, shoes · **What happens:** ask, obtain, think, not refuse, give, get · **To what, where:** shoes, that, shame, new shoes, good ones

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (lad, King, Dapplegrim, shoes), 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:pg540:38:50
# text = The lad asked for these things and obtained them instantly, for the King thought that for very shame he could not refuse to give them, and so Dapplegrim got new shoes, and they were good ones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the lad |  |  |  |  | for this things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **obtain** | past | the lad *not said here* | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the King | that |  |  |  | for shame | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **refuse** | could | King | shame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | past | Dapplegrim | new shoes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | past | shoes *= shoe* | good ones |  |  |  |  | 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 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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