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title: At first the only favour she asked was to be allowed to walk for one… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At first the only favour she asked was to be allowed to walk for one hour every day up and down the long gallery. Who acts: Rosalie, only favour. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 44

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At first the only favour she asked was to be allowed to walk for one hour every day up and down the long gallery.

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**Who acts:** Rosalie, only favour · **What happens:** ask, allow, walk · **To what, where:** only favour, long gallery

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosalie, only favour), 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:pg640:17:44
# text = At first the only favour she asked was to be allowed to walk for one hour every day up and down the long gallery.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RB	_	24	case	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Rosalie | the only favour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
| 2 | **allow** | past · passive |  | the only favour |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **walk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the only favour *not said here* |  |  | the long gallery | day; hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up gallery=Trajectory |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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