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title: The king’s heart was sorrowful as he read, for he was grateful to th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king’s heart was sorrowful as he read, for he was grateful to the lad for what he had done to help him; but the boy only laughed, and bade the king fear nothing, but to search the town instantly for two youths just like each other, and he would paint himself a mask that was just like them. Who a
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 104

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The king’s heart was sorrowful as he read, for he was grateful to the lad for what he had done to help him; but the boy only laughed, and bade the king fear nothing, but to search the town instantly for two youths just like each other, and he would paint himself a mask that was just like them.

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**Who acts:** heart, boy, bade, that · **What happens:** be, read, do, help, laugh, search · **To what, where:** heart, town

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, boy, bade, that), 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:pg2435:7:104
# text = The king’s heart was sorrowful as he read, for he was grateful to the lad for what he had done to help him; but the boy only laughed, and bade the king fear nothing, but to search the town instantly for two youths just like each other, and he would paint himself a mask that was just like them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
49	just	just	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	42	obl	_	_
52	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
58	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	57	obj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	mask	mask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
61	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	65	nsubj	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
63	just	just	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
64	like	like	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the king's heart |  |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | past | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | to the lad; grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  | heart |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **laugh** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **search** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | the town |  |  |  | for two youths; like each; instantly *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Location for youth=Theme |
| 8 | **paint** | would | bade | heart |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient mask=Result |
| 9 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | like women *= woman* | tree rules |

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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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