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title: Then Grannonia knelt down before the fox, and begged him in her swee… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Grannonia knelt down before the fox, and begged him in her sweetest way to catch the birds for her and procure their blood, promising at the same time to reward him richly. Who acts: Grannonia. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 53

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Then Grannonia knelt down before the fox, and begged him in her sweetest way to catch the birds for her and procure their blood, promising at the same time to reward him richly.

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**Who acts:** Grannonia · **What happens:** kneel down, beg, catch, procure, promise, reward · **To what, where:** fox, sweetest way, birds, blood

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia), 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:pg7277:25:53
# text = Then Grannonia knelt down before the fox, and begged him in her sweetest way to catch the birds for her and procure their blood, promising at the same time to reward him richly.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel down** | past | Grannonia |  |  |  | before the fox; then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before fox=Location |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Grannonia *not said here* |  | fox | Grannonia's sweetest way |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Grannonia *not said here* | the birds |  |  |  | for Grannonia | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bird=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **procure** | infinitive | Grannonia *not said here* | birds's blood |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | Grannonia *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **reward** | to-infinitive | Grannonia *not said here* |  | fox |  |  | richly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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