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title: In the meantime Minnikin begged the kitchen-maid very prettily to gi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime Minnikin begged the kitchen-maid very prettily to give him leave to go down to the strand for a short time. Who acts: Minnikin. 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 9

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In the meantime Minnikin begged the kitchen-maid very prettily to give him leave to go down to the strand for a short time.

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**Who acts:** Minnikin · **What happens:** beg, give, leave, go down · **To what, where:** meantime, Minnikin

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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 (Minnikin), 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:pg540:45:9
# text = In the meantime Minnikin begged the kitchen-maid very prettily to give him leave to go down to the strand for a short time.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	prettily	prettily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Minnikin |  |  | the meantime |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Minnikin *not said here* |  | Minnikin |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | Minnikin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go down** | to-infinitive | Minnikin *not said here* |  |  |  | time | to the strand; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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