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title: Moved by pity for her husband, the Countess at last found out the ca… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Moved by pity for her husband, the Countess at last found out the cause of his illness, and entreated him to allow himself to be cured. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 103

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Moved by pity for her husband, the Countess at last found out the cause of his illness, and entreated him to allow himself to be cured.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** move, find out, entreat, allow, cure, cause · **To what, where:** cause, husband, illness

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg540:42:103
# text = Moved by pity for her husband, the Countess at last found out the cause of his illness, and entreated him to allow himself to be cured.
1	Moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by pity | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by pity=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find out** | past | instant's husband | the cause of husband's illness |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic |
| 3 | **entreat** | past | instant's husband *not said here* | husband |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **allow** | to-infinitive | instant's husband *not said here* |  | husband |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **cure** | to-infinitive · passive | instant's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme» |
| 6 | **cause** |  |  | husband's illness |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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