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title: Then turning to the King and Queen, she begged them to proceed with… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then turning to the King and Queen, she begged them to proceed with the wedding, since she had provided a much more suitable bridegroom. Who acts: Melinette. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 172

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Then turning to the King and Queen, she begged them to proceed with the wedding, since she had provided a much more suitable bridegroom.

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**Who acts:** Melinette · **What happens:** turn, beg, proceed, provide · **To what, where:** King, suitable bridegroom

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Melinette), 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:pg7277:11:172
# text = Then turning to the King and Queen, she begged them to proceed with the wedding, since she had provided a much more suitable bridegroom.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Melinette *not said here* |  |  |  | then | to the King and Queen *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Melinette |  | King |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **proceed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Melinette *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the wedding | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **provide** | past · perfect | Melinette | a suitable bridegroom |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bridegroom=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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