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title: At last he spoke to the queen: ‘Dear wife, this man has done me a gr… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he spoke to the queen: ‘Dear wife, this man has done me a great service, and has, besides, behaved like a gentleman in not allowing me to send back the money. Who acts: king, Dear wife. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 49

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At last he spoke to the queen: ‘Dear wife, this man has done me a great service, and has, besides, behaved like a gentleman in not allowing me to send back the money.

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**Who acts:** king, Dear wife · **What happens:** speak, do, have, behave, not allow, send back · **To what, where:** last, great service, me, money · **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 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Dear wife), 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:pg5615:39:49
# text = At last he spoke to the queen: ‘Dear wife, this man has done me a great service, and has, besides, behaved like a gentleman in not allowing me to send back the money.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	behaved	behave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:agent	_	_
31	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | king |  |  | last |  | to the queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to queen=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | Dear wife | a great service | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **behave** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **allow** | gerund | king *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **send back** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the money |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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 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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