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title: Mannikin thereupon wrote a suitable reply, and then begged the King… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mannikin thereupon wrote a suitable reply, and then begged the King to satisfy his curiosity about all the strange things he had seen and heard since his landing. Who acts: Mannikin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 17

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Mannikin thereupon wrote a suitable reply, and then begged the King to satisfy his curiosity about all the strange things he had seen and heard since his landing.

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**Who acts:** Mannikin · **What happens:** write, beg, satisfy, see, hear · **To what, where:** suitable reply, King, curiosity, strange things

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Mannikin), 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:pg7277:15:17
# text = Mannikin thereupon wrote a suitable reply, and then begged the King to satisfy his curiosity about all the strange things he had seen and heard since his landing.
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
27	since	since	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Mannikin | a suitable reply |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Mannikin *not said here* |  | the King |  | then |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **satisfy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mannikin *not said here* | Mannikin's curiosity |  |  |  | about all strange things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Mannikin | all strange things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hear** | participle | Mannikin *not said here* |  |  |  | since Mannikin's landing |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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