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title: The King sighed, but made no answer--indeed, what was there to be sa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King sighed, but made no answer--indeed, what was there to be said to such a clear-sighted person? Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 96

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The King sighed, but made no answer--indeed, what was there to be said to such a clear-sighted person?

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** sigh, make, be, say, sight · **To what, where:** answer, sighted person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (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:pg503:6:96
# text = The King sighed, but made no answer--indeed, what was there to be said to such a clear-sighted person?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	sighted	sight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | the King *not said here* | no answer |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  | such sighted person |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: to person=Recipient |
| 5 | **sight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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