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title: For if she had liked the King ill before, she liked him far worse no… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For if she had liked the King ill before, she liked him far worse now that he had caused her son to disappear so suddenly. Who acts: mother, king. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 113

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For if she had liked the King ill before, she liked him far worse now that he had caused her son to disappear so suddenly.

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**Who acts:** mother, king · **What happens:** like, cause, disappear · **To what, where:** king, son

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, king), 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:pg503:27:113
# text = For if she had liked the King ill before, she liked him far worse now that he had caused her son to disappear so suddenly.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	iobj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | mother |  |  |  |  | before, ill *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **like** | past | mother | king |  |  | now | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** | past · perfect | king |  | mother's son |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **disappear** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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