--- title: But his wife rose up and went to him, and said, ‘Master, do not, I p… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But his wife rose up and went to him, and said, ‘Master, do not, I pray you, reject them,’ and she entreated long, till the sultan granted her prayer, for she loved the six elder ones more than her last one. Who acts: wife, I, sultan. 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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 (wife, I, sultan), 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:pg641:29:151 # text = But his wife rose up and went to him, and said, ‘Master, do not, I pray you, reject them,’ and she entreated long, till the sultan granted her prayer, for she loved the six elder ones more than her last one. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 reject reject VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 entreated entreat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 till till SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 granted grant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 for for SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 45 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 47 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 amod _ _ 48 than than ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise up** | past | child's wife | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | past | child's wife *not said here* | | child | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | child's wife *not said here* | Master | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **do** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pray** | present | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **reject** | infinitive | I *not said here* | dates *= date* | | | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **entreat** | past | wife | | | | | long *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **grant** | past | the sultan | wife's prayer | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | | 9 | **love** | past | wife | the six elder ones | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 10 | **pray** | | wife | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/150/) - next →: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/152/) - ↑ back to [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/)