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title: Mannikin, in despair, resolved that he would for once beg the assist… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mannikin, in despair, resolved that he would for once beg the assistance of the kind Fairy Genesta. Who acts: Mannikin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 55

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Mannikin, in despair, resolved that he would for once beg the assistance of the kind Fairy Genesta.

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**Who acts:** Mannikin · **What happens:** resolve, beg, assist · **To what, where:** assistance, kind Fairy Genesta

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. 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:pg7277:16:55
# text = Mannikin, in despair, resolved that he would for once beg the assistance of the kind Fairy Genesta.
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
12	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Genesta	Genesta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | infinitive | Mannikin *not said here* | the assistance of the kind Fairy Genesta |  |  |  | once *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient |
| 3 | **assist** |  |  | the kind Fairy Genesta |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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