--- title: However, she took it off, and with graceful politeness begged Prince… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, she took it off, and with graceful politeness begged Prince Mannikin to accept it, which you may be sure he was charmed to do, and, taking only this and a little bundle of all kinds of wood, and accompanied only by two spaniels out of the fifty who had stayed with him when the war was ended --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/) / 23 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 23 However, she took it off, and with graceful politeness begged Prince Mannikin to accept it, which you may be sure he was charmed to do, and, taking only this and a little bundle of all kinds of wood, and accompanied only by two spaniels out of the fifty who had stayed with him when the war was ended, he set forth, receiving many tokens of love and favour from the people in every town he passed through. **Who acts:** richness, you, war, Mannikin · **What happens:** take off, beg, accept, be, charm, do · **To what, where:** mantle, Mannikin, this, two spaniels, fifty, many tokens This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (richness, you, war, Mannikin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:17:23 # text = However, she took it off, and with graceful politeness begged Prince Mannikin to accept it, which you may be sure he was charmed to do, and, taking only this and a little bundle of all kinds of wood, and accompanied only by two spaniels out of the fifty who had stayed with him when the war was ended, he set forth, receiving many tokens of love and favour from the people in every town he passed through. 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 graceful graceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 politeness politeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 12 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:desc _ _ 14 Mannikin Mannikin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 ccomp _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 parataxis _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 charmed charm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 accompanied accompany VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 47 only only ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 48 by by ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ _ 50 spaniels spaniel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 51 out out ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 57 obl _ _ 55 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ _ 56 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 stayed stay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 conj _ _ 58 with with ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 obl _ _ 60 when when SCONJ WRB _ 64 mark _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 63 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 64 cop _ _ 64 ended ended ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 67 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 conj _ _ 68 forth forth ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 70 receiving receive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 67 advcl _ _ 71 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 72 amod _ _ 72 tokens token NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 obj _ _ 73 of of ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 74 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 nmod _ _ 75 and and CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 76 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 conj _ _ 77 from from ADP IN _ 79 case _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 79 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 70 obl _ _ 80 in in ADP IN _ 82 case _ _ 81 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 82 det _ _ 82 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 79 nmod _ _ 83 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 84 nsubj _ _ 84 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 82 acl:relcl _ _ 85 through through ADV RB _ 84 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 86 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | past | richness | mantle | | | | however *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | richness *not said here* | | Mannikin Prince | | | with graceful politeness | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mannikin=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **accept** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | richness *not said here* | mantle | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **is** | may | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **charm** | past · passive | | Mannikin | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **take** | gerund | richness *not said here* | this | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 8 | **accompany** | participle | | two spaniels | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaniel=Theme | | 9 | **stay** | past · perfect | | | | the fifty | | with Mannikin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out fifty=Location | | 10 | **is** | past | the war | | | | | ended *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **set** | past | Mannikin | | | | | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 12 | **receive** | gerund | Mannikin *not said here* | many tokens of love and favour | | | | from the people in every town | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent token=Theme from people=Source | | 13 | **pass through** | past | Mannikin | every town *not said here* | | | | through *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/24/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/)