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title: On the wedding-day, however, the Princess begged that she might have… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the wedding-day, however, the Princess begged that she might have the little boy who was in the kitchen, and carried wood and water for the kitchen-maid, to fill the wine-cups at the wedding feast. Who acts: Princess, little boy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, pa
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 86

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On the wedding-day, however, the Princess begged that she might have the little boy who was in the kitchen, and carried wood and water for the kitchen-maid, to fill the wine-cups at the wedding feast.

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**Who acts:** Princess, little boy · **What happens:** beg, have, be, carry, fill · **To what, where:** little boy, kitchen, wood, wine cups, wedding feast · **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, little boy), 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:pg540:45:86
# text = On the wedding-day, however, the Princess begged that she might have the little boy who was in the kitchen, and carried wood and water for the kitchen-maid, to fill the wine-cups at the wedding feast.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the Princess |  |  |  | day | however *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | might | Princess | the little boy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the little boy |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | past | the Princess *not said here* | wood and water |  |  |  | for the kitchen maid | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 5 | **fill** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | the wine cups |  | the wedding feast |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=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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