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title: The Magician, greatly delighted, begged her to allow the wedding to… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magician, greatly delighted, begged her to allow the wedding to take place as soon as possible. Who acts: Magician, wedding. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 36

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The Magician, greatly delighted, begged her to allow the wedding to take place as soon as possible.

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**Who acts:** Magician, wedding · **What happens:** beg, allow, take · **To what, where:** Punchkin, wedding, place

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magician, wedding), 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:pg7128:10:36
# text = The Magician, greatly delighted, begged her to allow the wedding to take place as soon as possible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the Magician |  | Punchkin |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **allow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Magician *not said here* | the wedding |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer wedding=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the wedding *not said here* | place |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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