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title: The king grew pale with sorrow and anger, and ordered them to summon… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king grew pale with sorrow and anger, and ordered them to summon his trusted retainer, to whom he had sent the instructions that the queen and the whelps were to be carefully looked after. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 4

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The king grew pale with sorrow and anger, and ordered them to summon his trusted retainer, to whom he had sent the instructions that the queen and the whelps were to be carefully looked after.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** grow, order, summon, trust, send, look · **To what, where:** sorrow, trusted retainer, instructions

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. 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:pg5615:34:4
# text = The king grew pale with sorrow and anger, and ordered them to summon his trusted retainer, to whom he had sent the instructions that the queen and the whelps were to be carefully looked after.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	summon	summon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	retainer	retainer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	whelps	whelp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
37	after	after	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | with sorrow and anger; pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past |  |  | sorrow |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **summon** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | king's trusted retainer |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retainer=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **send** | past · perfect | king | the instructions |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme to whom=Destination |
| 6 | **look** | past · passive | king *not said here* | the instructions |  |  |  | after, carefully *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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