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title: But Dullhead begged so hard to be allowed to go that at last his fat… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Dullhead begged so hard to be allowed to go that at last his father said: ‘Very well, then—go. Who acts: Dullhead, father. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 15

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But Dullhead begged so hard to be allowed to go that at last his father said: ‘Very well, then—go.

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**Who acts:** Dullhead, father · **What happens:** beg, allow, go, say · **To what, where:** that, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, father), 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:pg540:48:15
# text = But Dullhead begged so hard to be allowed to go that at last his father said: ‘Very well, then—go.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Dullhead |  |  |  | then | hard, well *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **allow** | to-infinitive · passive | Dullhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | that |  | last |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dullhead's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | Dullhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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