--- title: He wept and moaned to himself all day, and would hardly touch food,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He wept and moaned to himself all day, and would hardly touch food, though, in dread that he should die and escape his tormentors, the king ordered his head cook to send him dishes from the royal table. Who acts: man, king, head cook. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, king, head cook), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:20:74 # text = He wept and moaned to himself all day, and would hardly touch food, though, in dread that he should die and escape his tormentors, the king ordered his head cook to send him dishes from the royal table. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 moaned moan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 though though ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 dread dread NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tormentors tormentor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weep** | past | man | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **moan** | past | man *not said here* | | man | | day | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | | 3 | **touch** | would | man *not said here* | food | | dread | | hardly, though *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Co-Theme | | 4 | **die** | should | man | dread *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **escape** | infinitive | man *not said here* | man's tormentors | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tormentor=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **order** | past | the king | man's head cook | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **send** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man's head cook *not said here* | dishes | man | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination dish=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/75/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/)