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title: However, having considered what a grief it would be to her to see th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, having considered what a grief it would be to her to see them perish with hunger, she at last consented, and went to bed all in tears. Who acts: grief, children. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 12

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However, having considered what a grief it would be to her to see them perish with hunger, she at last consented, and went to bed all in tears.

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**Who acts:** grief, children · **What happens:** consider, be, see, perish, consent, go · **To what, where:** grief, children, wife, tears

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, children), 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:pg503:33:12
# text = However, having considered what a grief it would be to her to see them perish with hunger, she at last consented, and went to bed all in tears.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | gerund · perfect |  | a grief |  |  |  | however *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme grief=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | would | grief |  |  |  |  | to wife | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **perish** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with hunger | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **consent** | participle · passive |  | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past |  |  |  | tears |  | to bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

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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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