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title: The Princess wept, and begged him most earnestly not to go and leave… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess wept, and begged him most earnestly not to go and leave her; but Ritter Red did not concern himself about that. Who acts: Princess, Ritter. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 7

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The Princess wept, and begged him most earnestly not to go and leave her; but Ritter Red did not concern himself about that.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Ritter · **What happens:** weep, beg, not go, leave, do · **To what, where:** Ritter, Princess, concern · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Princess, Ritter), 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:pg540:45:7
# text = The Princess wept, and begged him most earnestly not to go and leave her; but Ritter Red did not concern himself about that.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the Princess *not said here* |  | Ritter |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | earnestly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive |  | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past | Ritter | concern  Ritter |  |  |  | about that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concern=Eventuality |

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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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