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title: After dinner the lady said kindly to Elsa, ‘Kisika has begged me to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After dinner the lady said kindly to Elsa, ‘Kisika has begged me to let you stay with her, and you have told her you would like to live here. Who acts: lady, Kisika, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 82

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After dinner the lady said kindly to Elsa, ‘Kisika has begged me to let you stay with her, and you have told her you would like to live here.

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**Who acts:** lady, Kisika, you · **What happens:** say, beg, let, stay, tell, like · **To what, where:** Elsa, me, you, lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Kisika, you), 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:pg641:2:82
# text = After dinner the lady said kindly to Elsa, ‘Kisika has begged me to let you stay with her, and you have told her you would like to live here.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the lady |  | Elsa |  | after dinner | kindly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to elsa=Recipient |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present · perfect | Kisika |  | me |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | Kisika *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with lady | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | you | lady |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **like** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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