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title: The king felt rather curious as to what sort of garment his son woul… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king felt rather curious as to what sort of garment his son would make, and the queen, too, was very anxious as to the result of her experiment. Who acts: king, son, queen. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 47

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The king felt rather curious as to what sort of garment his son would make, and the queen, too, was very anxious as to the result of her experiment.

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**Who acts:** king, son, queen · **What happens:** feel, make, be, sort, result, experiment · **To what, where:** garment, experiment

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, son, 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:pg2435:35:47
# text = The king felt rather curious as to what sort of garment his son would make, and the queen, too, was very anxious as to the result of her experiment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	experiment	experiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | would | king's son |  |  |  |  | as what sort of garment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the result of queen's experiment; anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | garment |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | queen's experiment |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **experiment** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom experiment «act intransitive»: 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 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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