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title: At this Sir Red became still more embittered, and again thought of h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this Sir Red became still more embittered, and again thought of how to avenge himself on the brothers. Who acts: Red. 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 70

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At this Sir Red became still more embittered, and again thought of how to avenge himself on the brothers.

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**Who acts:** Red · **What happens:** become, embitter, think, avenge · **To what, where:** Red · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Red), 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:pg5615:28:70
# text = At this Sir Red became still more embittered, and again thought of how to avenge himself on the brothers.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	embittered	embitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Red  Sir |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **embitter** | past | Red  Sir *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | Red  Sir *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **avenge** | to-infinitive |  | Red |  |  |  | on the brothers | 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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