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title: And now the young King was deeply afflicted, and day out and day in… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the young King was deeply afflicted, and day out and day in went about thinking of naught else but how to get back again to his Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 48

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And now the young King was deeply afflicted, and day out and day in went about thinking of naught else but how to get back again to his Queen.

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**What happens:** afflict, go, think, get back · **To what, where:** young King, Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:26:48
# text = And now the young King was deeply afflicted, and day out and day in went about thinking of naught else but how to get back again to his Queen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	obl	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afflict** | past · passive |  | the young King |  |  | now | deeply, out *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of naught | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get back** | to-infinitive |  |  | King's Queen |  | again |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to queen=Result |

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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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