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title: The king lay in bed sick with sorrow, and neither eating nor drinkin… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king lay in bed sick with sorrow, and neither eating nor drinking, for he thought that his son had been killed by the queen. Who acts: king, neither, queen. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 19

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The king lay in bed sick with sorrow, and neither eating nor drinking, for he thought that his son had been killed by the queen.

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**Who acts:** king, neither, queen · **What happens:** lie, eat, drink, think, kill · **To what, where:** bed, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, neither, queen), 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:pg2435:34:19
# text = The king lay in bed sick with sorrow, and neither eating nor drinking, for he thought that his son had been killed by the queen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the king |  |  | bed |  | sick *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | neither |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund | neither *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive | the queen | king's son |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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