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title: With that the king let them go, and there was great grief among them… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With that the king let them go, and there was great grief among them; some wept and others lamented. Who acts: you, heads, great grief, some. 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 47

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With that the king let them go, and there was great grief among them; some wept and others lamented.

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**Who acts:** you, heads, great grief, some · **What happens:** let, go, be, weep, lament · **To what, where:** heads, others

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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 (you, heads, great grief, some), 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:pg5615:28:47
# text = With that the king let them go, and there was great grief among them; some wept and others lamented.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	lamented	lament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | heads *= head* |  |  |  | with the king | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | great grief |  |  | there |  | among heads *= head* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location |
| 4 | **weep** | past | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lament** | participle |  | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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 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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