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title: But the wicked King only laughed and mocked at her, and cried: ‘Well… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the wicked King only laughed and mocked at her, and cried: ‘Well, little fright, little toad! why don’t you love my son, who is far too handsome and too good for you? Who acts: wicked King, you, son. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 165

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But the wicked King only laughed and mocked at her, and cried: ‘Well, little fright, little toad! why don’t you love my son, who is far too handsome and too good for you?

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**Who acts:** wicked King, you, son · **What happens:** laugh, mock, cry, not love, be · **To what, where:** little fright, son

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked King, you, son), 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:pg540:22:165
# text = But the wicked King only laughed and mocked at her, and cried: ‘Well, little fright, little toad! why don’t you love my son, who is far too handsome and too good for you?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mocked	mock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
24	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
35	too	too	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the wicked King |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mock** | past | the wicked King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Delicia | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the wicked King *not said here* | little fright and little toad |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **love** | present · do-support | you | my son |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | my son |  |  |  |  | far, handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | my son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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