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title: ‘No, take me, for whoever wears me in his hat will be loved by the m… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, take me, for whoever wears me in his hat will be loved by the most beautiful woman in the world,’ pleaded the second; and then one after another bestirred itself, each more charming than the last, all promising, in soft sweet voices, wonderful things to Petru, if only he would pick them. Who ac
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 120

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‘No, take me, for whoever wears me in his hat will be loved by the most beautiful woman in the world,’ pleaded the second; and then one after another bestirred itself, each more charming than the last, all promising, in soft sweet voices, wonderful things to Petru, if only he would pick them.

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**Who acts:** whoever, beautiful woman, one, each, all, Petru · **What happens:** take, wear, love, plead, bestir, charm · **To what, where:** me, hat, second, world, soft sweet voices, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whoever, beautiful woman, one, each), 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:pg641:19:120
# text = ‘No, take me, for whoever wears me in his hat will be loved by the most beautiful woman in the world,’ pleaded the second; and then one after another bestirred itself, each more charming than the last, all promising, in soft sweet voices, wonderful things to Petru, if only he would pick them.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
27	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj	_	_
34	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	nmod	_	_
36	bestirred	bestir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
37	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	nsubj	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
41	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
42	than	than	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	nsubj	_	_
47	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
59	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
60	only	only	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
64	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **wear** | present | whoever | me |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent i=Source |
| 3 | **love** | future · passive | the beautiful woman in the world |  |  | Petru's hat |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **plead** *speech: request* | past |  | the second |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bestir** | participle | one after another | world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **charm** | gerund | each |  |  |  |  | than the last | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | all | soft sweet voices and wonderful things to Petru |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 8 | **pick** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Petru | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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