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title: Beg the king to give you fifty gold pieces and leave to ride me, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Beg the king to give you fifty gold pieces and leave to ride me, and the rest will be easy.’ Who acts: you, rest. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 27

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Beg the king to give you fifty gold pieces and leave to ride me, and the rest will be easy.’

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**Who acts:** you, rest · **What happens:** beg, give, leave, ride, be · **To what, where:** king, fifty gold pieces, you, me

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rest), 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:pg5615:38:27
# text = Beg the king to give you fifty gold pieces and leave to ride me, and the rest will be easy.’
1	Beg	beg	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the king |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | fifty gold pieces | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | future | the rest |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |

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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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