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title: To her, as her most faithful servant, she gave the lucky basket in c… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To her, as her most faithful servant, she gave the lucky basket in charge, and besought her to treasure it carefully. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 54

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To her, as her most faithful servant, she gave the lucky basket in charge, and besought her to treasure it carefully.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** give, beseech, treasure · **To what, where:** lucky basket, queen, charge, basket

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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:pg641:12:54
# text = To her, as her most faithful servant, she gave the lucky basket in charge, and besought her to treasure it carefully.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	treasure	treasure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	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 | **give** | past | queen | the lucky basket | queen | charge |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to she=Recipient |
| 2 | **beseech** | past | queen *not said here* | queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **treasure** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* | basket |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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