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title: Then her voice softened, and she begged him quite politely to tell h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then her voice softened, and she begged him quite politely to tell her where he had spent his evening, and how he had come by these wonderful riches. Who acts: voice, blaze. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 85

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Then her voice softened, and she begged him quite politely to tell her where he had spent his evening, and how he had come by these wonderful riches.

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**Who acts:** voice, blaze · **What happens:** soften, beg, tell, spend, come · **To what, where:** blaze, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, blaze), 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:pg5615:36:85
# text = Then her voice softened, and she begged him quite politely to tell her where he had spent his evening, and how he had come by these wonderful riches.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	softened	soften	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soften** | past | woman's voice |  |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | voice |  | blaze |  |  | politely *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | voice *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **spend** | past · perfect | blaze |  |  |  | evening |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | blaze |  |  |  |  | by this wonderful riches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rich=Location |

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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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