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title: The Council talked over this report for some days, and then the king… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Council talked over this report for some days, and then the king made up his mind that he would judge for himself, and pretend to be his own ambassador. Who acts: Council, king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 119

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The Council talked over this report for some days, and then the king made up his mind that he would judge for himself, and pretend to be his own ambassador.

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**Who acts:** Council, king · **What happens:** talk, make up, judge, pretend, be, mind · **To what, where:** report, mind, own ambassador

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Council, 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:pg5615:29:119
# text = The Council talked over this report for some days, and then the king made up his mind that he would judge for himself, and pretend to be his own ambassador.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | the Council |  |  | this report | day |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make up** | participle | the king | king's mind |  |  | then |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **judge** | would | king |  |  |  |  | for king | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for himself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **pretend** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | king's own ambassador |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mind** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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