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title: He was very well liked by the king, but hated by everyone else, for… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was very well liked by the king, but hated by everyone else, for he was wicked both in will and deed. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 39

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He was very well liked by the king, but hated by everyone else, for he was wicked both in will and deed.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** like, hate, be, deed · **To what, where:** king

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. 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:pg5615:28:39
# text = He was very well liked by the king, but hated by everyone else, for he was wicked both in will and deed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
20	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc:preconj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	deed	deed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past · passive | the king | king |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hate** | participle | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by everyone | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deed** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 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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