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title: Now, to lose one’s nose, is worse even than losing one’s ear or one’… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, to lose one’s nose, is worse even than losing one’s ear or one’s finger, and the king hesitated as to whether he should comply. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 65

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Now, to lose one’s nose, is worse even than losing one’s ear or one’s finger, and the king hesitated as to whether he should comply.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** lose, be, hesitate, comply · **To what, where:** one nose, one ear

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg2435:13:65
# text = Now, to lose one’s nose, is worse even than losing one’s ear or one’s finger, and the king hesitated as to whether he should comply.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	comply	comply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | to-infinitive |  | one nose |  |  | now |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund |  | one ear or one finger |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hesitate** | participle | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **comply** | should | king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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