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title: So returning hastily to her own room, she wrote him a letter which s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So returning hastily to her own room, she wrote him a letter which she gave to a trusty servant to deliver, begging her wooer to come to her rooms early the next day, and to undertake nothing without her advice, if he ever wished her to be his wife. Who acts: daughter, letter, man. A sentence of «Th
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 10

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So returning hastily to her own room, she wrote him a letter which she gave to a trusty servant to deliver, begging her wooer to come to her rooms early the next day, and to undertake nothing without her advice, if he ever wished her to be his wife.

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**Who acts:** daughter, letter, man · **What happens:** return, write, give, deliver, beg, come · **To what, where:** man, trusty servant, wooer, rooms, nothing, daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, letter, man), 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:pg641:23:10
# text = So returning hastily to her own room, she wrote him a letter which she gave to a trusty servant to deliver, begging her wooer to come to her rooms early the next day, and to undertake nothing without her advice, if he ever wished her to be his wife.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wooer	wooer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	39	obj	_	_
41	without	without	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	48	advmod	_	_
48	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	cop	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to daughter's own room *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result |
| 2 | **write** | past | daughter | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | a letter |  | a trusty servant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 4 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | a letter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | a letter *not said here* | daughter's wooer |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent wooer=Recipient |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | a letter *not said here* |  |  | daughter's rooms | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **undertake** | to-infinitive | daughter *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | without daughter's advice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 8 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | man | daughter |  |  | ever |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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