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title: The peasant and his wife began to lament bitterly that Peter had run… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The peasant and his wife began to lament bitterly that Peter had run away in this fashion just when they were to have so much joy of him, and after they had spent so much on his education. Who acts: peasant, Peter, parents. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, par
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 35

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The peasant and his wife began to lament bitterly that Peter had run away in this fashion just when they were to have so much joy of him, and after they had spent so much on his education.

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**Who acts:** peasant, Peter, parents · **What happens:** begin, lament, run away, have, spend, joy · **To what, where:** fashion, much joy, education, Peter

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, Peter, parents), 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:pg5615:14:35
# text = The peasant and his wife began to lament bitterly that Peter had run away in this fashion just when they were to have so much joy of him, and after they had spent so much on his education.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	lament	lament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	much	much	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	education	education	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the peasant and Peter's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lament** | to-infinitive | the peasant and Peter's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run away** | past · perfect | Peter |  |  | this fashion |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=Trajectory |
| 4 | **have** | past | parents *= parent* | much joy of Peter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient |
| 5 | **spend** | past · perfect | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | on Peter's education *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on education=Goal |
| 6 | **joy** |  |  | Peter |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **educate** |  | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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