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title: This request made him feel very sad, as if some misfortune must sure… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This request made him feel very sad, as if some misfortune must surely come of it, but his love for the Princess being stronger than anything else he did not like to refuse her. Who acts: request, King, misfortune, love. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 81

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This request made him feel very sad, as if some misfortune must surely come of it, but his love for the Princess being stronger than anything else he did not like to refuse her.

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**Who acts:** request, King, misfortune, love · **What happens:** make, feel, come, be, not like, refuse · **To what, where:** King, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (request, King, misfortune, love), 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:pg503:31:81
# text = This request made him feel very sad, as if some misfortune must surely come of it, but his love for the Princess being stronger than anything else he did not like to refuse her.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	_
29	else	else	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | this request | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | some misfortune |  |  |  |  | of request; surely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | King's love for the Princess |  |  |  |  | than anything; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **refuse** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 7 | **love** |  | King |  |  |  |  | for the Princess | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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