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title: The king was eagerly awaiting her, and when she arrived he begged he… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was eagerly awaiting her, and when she arrived he begged her politely to raise her veil and let him see her face. Who acts: king, woman. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 31

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The king was eagerly awaiting her, and when she arrived he begged her politely to raise her veil and let him see her face.

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**Who acts:** king, woman · **What happens:** await, arrive, beg, raise, let, see · **To what, where:** woman, veil, King, face

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, woman), 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:pg5615:18:31
# text = The king was eagerly awaiting her, and when she arrived he begged her politely to raise her veil and let him see her face.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	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 | **await** | past · progressive | the king | woman |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | King |  | woman |  |  | politely *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **raise** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | woman's veil |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | King *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | King *not said here* | woman's face |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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