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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 49

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The emperor received her kindly, and declared himself fortunate at finding a vassal so brave and so charming, and begged the princess to remain in attendance on his person.

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**Who acts:** emperor · **What happens:** receive, declare, find, beg, remain · **To what, where:** princess, Genii, vassal charming, attendance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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:pg641:39:49
# text = The emperor received her kindly, and declared himself fortunate at finding a vassal so brave and so charming, and begged the princess to remain in attendance on his person.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	vassal	vassal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	attendance	attendance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the emperor | princess |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  | Genii |  |  |  | fortunate *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | gerund |  | a vassal charming |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Topic |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  | the princess |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | attendance |  | on Genii's person | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attendance=Location |

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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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