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title: Dame Ilse knew right well what a torment she had been to her husband… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Dame Ilse knew right well what a torment she had been to her husband, and remorse caused her the gloomiest forebodings. Who acts: Dame, torment, remorse. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 75

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Dame Ilse knew right well what a torment she had been to her husband, and remorse caused her the gloomiest forebodings.

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**Who acts:** Dame, torment, remorse · **What happens:** know, be, cause · **To what, where:** gloomiest forebodings, Dame

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, torment, remorse), 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:pg2435:16:75
# text = Dame Ilse knew right well what a torment she had been to her husband, and remorse caused her the gloomiest forebodings.
1	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	torment	torment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	remorse	remorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	gloomiest	gloomy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	forebodings	foreboding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Dame |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | a torment |  |  |  |  | to Dame's husband | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | past | remorse | the gloomiest forebodings | Dame |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer she=Theme foreboding=Eventuality |

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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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