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title: He wondered what kind of death the king would invent for him, and we… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He wondered what kind of death the king would invent for him, and went through almost as much torture, as he lay awake nearly the whole of every night thinking over the situation, as he would have suffered if the king’s executioners were already setting to work upon his neck. Who acts: turn, kind, e
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 79

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He wondered what kind of death the king would invent for him, and went through almost as much torture, as he lay awake nearly the whole of every night thinking over the situation, as he would have suffered if the king’s executioners were already setting to work upon his neck.

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**Who acts:** turn, kind, executioners · **What happens:** wonder, invent, go through, lie, think, suffer · **To what, where:** situation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, kind, executioners), 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:pg3282:34:79
# text = He wondered what kind of death the king would invent for him, and went through almost as much torture, as he lay awake nearly the whole of every night thinking over the situation, as he would have suffered if the king’s executioners were already setting to work upon his neck.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	through	through	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	torture	torture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
25	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux	_	_
41	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	executioners	executioner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	already	already	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
52	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | turn |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **invent** | would | what kind of death |  |  |  |  | for king | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **go through** | past | turn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as much torture; through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past | turn |  |  |  |  | awake, whole *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | turn *not said here* |  |  | the situation |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **suffer** | would · perfect | turn |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **set** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | the king's executioners |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **work** | to-infinitive | the king's executioners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon king's neck | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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