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title: The king sat deep in thought, looking now at his wife and now at Lab… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king sat deep in thought, looking now at his wife and now at Labakan, who was doing his best to hide his vexation at his own stupidity. Who acts: king, wife. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 59

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The king sat deep in thought, looking now at his wife and now at Labakan, who was doing his best to hide his vexation at his own stupidity.

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**Who acts:** king, wife · **What happens:** sit, look, do, hide, vex · **To what, where:** thought, best, vexation, own stupidity

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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, wife), 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:pg2435:35:59
# text = The king sat deep in thought, looking now at his wife and now at Labakan, who was doing his best to hide his vexation at his own stupidity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the king |  |  | thought |  | deep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thought=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  | now | at king's wife and Labakan | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past · progressive | king's wife and Labakan | king's best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hide** | to-infinitive | king's wife and Labakan *not said here* | king's vexation |  | king's own stupidity |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vexation=Patient at stupidity=Location |
| 5 | **vex** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: 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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