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title: We granted his request with ready courtesy, and during supper he ent… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We granted his request with ready courtesy, and during supper he entertained us with most agreeable conversation, mingled with amusing anecdotes. Who acts: We, stranger. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 55

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We granted his request with ready courtesy, and during supper he entertained us with most agreeable conversation, mingled with amusing anecdotes.

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**Who acts:** We, stranger · **What happens:** grant, entertain, mingle, request · **To what, where:** request, us, most agreeable conversation

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, stranger), 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:pg7277:45:55
# text = We granted his request with ready courtesy, and during supper he entertained us with most agreeable conversation, mingled with amusing anecdotes.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	amusing	amusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past | We | stranger's request |  |  |  | with ready courtesy | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 2 | **entertain** | past | stranger | us |  |  | during supper | with most agreeable conversation | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mingle** | participle |  | most agreeable conversation *not said here* |  |  |  | with amusing anecdotes | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with anecdote=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **request** |  | stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «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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