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title: So the lady resolved to go without his knowledge to pray for mercy f… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the lady resolved to go without his knowledge to pray for mercy from the spinner, and in the name of Renelde’s dead mother she besought her to spin no more. Who acts: lady. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 105

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So the lady resolved to go without his knowledge to pray for mercy from the spinner, and in the name of Renelde’s dead mother she besought her to spin no more.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** resolve, go, pray, beseech, spin, name · **To what, where:** spinner, mother, name, more, dead mother

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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 (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:pg540:42:105
# text = So the lady resolved to go without his knowledge to pray for mercy from the spinner, and in the name of Renelde’s dead mother she besought her to spin no more.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spinner	spinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	no	no	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without Count's knowledge | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pray** | to-infinitive | the lady *not said here* |  |  | the spinner |  | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme |
| 4 | **beseech** | past | lady | mother |  | the name of Renelde's dead mother |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spin** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Renelde's dead mother |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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