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title: And what great weeping and lamentation there was in the palace when… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And what great weeping and lamentation there was in the palace when the dreadful news was told! Who acts: great weeping. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 22

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And what great weeping and lamentation there was in the palace when the dreadful news was told!

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**Who acts:** great weeping · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** palace, dreadful news · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great weeping), 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:pg3282:31:22
# text = And what great weeping and lamentation there was in the palace when the dreadful news was told!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | great weeping and lamentation |  |  | the palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the dreadful news |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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