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title: The King and Queen were at church, weeping for their son, whom they… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King and Queen were at church, weeping for their son, whom they had long mourned for dead. Who acts: King, church, maidens. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 121

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The King and Queen were at church, weeping for their son, whom they had long mourned for dead.

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**Who acts:** King, church, maidens · **What happens:** be, weep, mourn · **To what, where:** church

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, church, maidens), 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:pg503:26:121
# text = The King and Queen were at church, weeping for their son, whom they had long mourned for dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 and Queen |  |  | church |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | gerund | church *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for maidens's son | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mourn** | past · perfect | maidens *= maiden* | church |  |  |  | for dead; long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for dead=Attribute |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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