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title: The sad news drove Ratibor distracted, and as the days went on, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sad news drove Ratibor distracted, and as the days went on, and nothing could be heard of the princess, he forsook his castle and the society of men, and spent his days in the wild forests, roaming about and crying her name aloud to the trees and rocks. Who acts: sad news, Ratibor, princess. A s
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 87

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The sad news drove Ratibor distracted, and as the days went on, and nothing could be heard of the princess, he forsook his castle and the society of men, and spent his days in the wild forests, roaming about and crying her name aloud to the trees and rocks.

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**Who acts:** sad news, Ratibor, princess · **What happens:** drive, distract, go on, hear, forsake, spend · **To what, where:** nothing, castle, wild forests, name, trees

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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 (sad news, Ratibor, princess), 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:pg3282:31:87
# text = The sad news drove Ratibor distracted, and as the days went on, and nothing could be heard of the princess, he forsook his castle and the society of men, and spent his days in the wild forests, roaming about and crying her name aloud to the trees and rocks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Ratibor	Ratibor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	distracted	distract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	forsook	forsake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
44	about	about	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | the sad news |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 2 | **distract** | past | Ratibor |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go on** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | could · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | of the princess | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **forsake** | past | Ratibor | Ratibor's castle and the society of men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spend** | past | Ratibor *not said here* |  |  | the wild forests | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **roam** | gerund | Ratibor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Ratibor *not said here* | princess's name | the trees and rocks |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Topic to tree=Recipient |
| 9 | **name** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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 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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