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title: Prince Fickle was more in love with her than ever, and begged her on… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Fickle was more in love with her than ever, and begged her once again to tell him her name. Who acts: Fickle. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 50

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Prince Fickle was more in love with her than ever, and begged her once again to tell him her name.

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**Who acts:** Fickle · **What happens:** be, beg, tell, name · **To what, where:** love, Fickle, name, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Fickle), 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:pg7277:29:50
# text = Prince Fickle was more in love with her than ever, and begged her once again to tell him her name.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fickle  Prince |  |  | love with Helena |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Fickle  Prince *not said here* |  | Fickle |  | again |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Fickle  Prince *not said here* | Fickle's name | Prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Topic |
| 4 | **name** |  | Fickle |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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