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title: He even went so far as to ask her if she would not be very grateful… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He even went so far as to ask her if she would not be very grateful to anyone who would rid her of the insolent Brandatimor. Who acts: Prince, Princess. 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 61

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He even went so far as to ask her if she would not be very grateful to anyone who would rid her of the insolent Brandatimor.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Princess · **What happens:** go, ask, not be, rid · **To what, where:** Princess

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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 (Prince, Princess), 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:pg7277:16:61
# text = He even went so far as to ask her if she would not be very grateful to anyone who would rid her of the insolent Brandatimor.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	rid	rid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	insolent	insolent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	Brandatimor	Brandatimor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Princess |  |  |  |  | to anyone; grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rid** | would |  | Princess |  |  |  | of the insolent | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Source of insolent=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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