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title: The king had suffered much pain in his absence, thinking that if the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king had suffered much pain in his absence, thinking that if the Man-eater ate Ciccu, it would be all his fault. Who acts: king, Man eater, pain. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 37

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The king had suffered much pain in his absence, thinking that if the Man-eater ate Ciccu, it would be all his fault.

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**Who acts:** king, Man eater, pain · **What happens:** suffer, think, eat, be, absent · **To what, where:** much pain, absence, Ciccu, fault · **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 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Man eater, pain), 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:pg5615:38:37
# text = The king had suffered much pain in his absence, thinking that if the Man-eater ate Ciccu, it would be all his fault.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
19	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past · perfect | the king | much pain |  | king's absence |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Man eater | Ciccu |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ciccu=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | would | pain | Ciccu's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **absent** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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