--- title: She entreated the King to allow the Prince to visit her, and after s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She entreated the King to allow the Prince to visit her, and after some hesitation which was overruled by his wife, he finally consented. Who acts: Queen, Prince, wife. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Prince, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:22:82 # text = She entreated the King to allow the Prince to visit her, and after some hesitation which was overruled by his wife, he finally consented. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 entreated entreat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 hesitation hesitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 overruled overrule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 finally finally ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 consented consent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **entreat** | past | Queen | | the King | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 2 | **allow** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | the Prince | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer prince=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | Queen | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | | 4 | **overrule** | past · passive | Prince's wife | some hesitation | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **consent** | past | Prince | | | | after some hesitation | finally *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/83/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)