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title: She entreated me to tell you what had happened, and to beg you, in p… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She entreated me to tell you what had happened, and to beg you, in pity, to give her beauty back to her. Who acts: Sylvia. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 16

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She entreated me to tell you what had happened, and to beg you, in pity, to give her beauty back to her.

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**Who acts:** Sylvia · **What happens:** entreat, tell, happen, beg, give · **To what, where:** me, you, pity, beauty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia), 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:pg7277:10:16
# text = She entreated me to tell you what had happened, and to beg you, in pity, to give her beauty back to her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	beg	beg	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | past | Sylvia |  | me |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Sylvia *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive |  |  | you | pity |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | Sylvia's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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