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title: He most humbly begged him to stay at his palace, and to accept what… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He most humbly begged him to stay at his palace, and to accept what little hospitality could be provided. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 61

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He most humbly begged him to stay at his palace, and to accept what little hospitality could be provided.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** beg, stay, accept, provide · **To what, where:** Report, palace, little hospitality

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg7128:18:61
# text = He most humbly begged him to stay at his palace, and to accept what little hospitality could be provided.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | prince |  | Report |  |  | humbly *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  | prince's palace |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location |
| 3 | **accept** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **provide** | could · passive |  | little hospitality |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=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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