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title: ‘Ah, child,’ answered the king, ‘how could I ever guess that the ric… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah, child,’ answered the king, ‘how could I ever guess that the rich Don Giovanni would ever look like that? Who acts: child, I, rich Don Giovanni. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 57

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‘Ah, child,’ answered the king, ‘how could I ever guess that the rich Don Giovanni would ever look like that?

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**Who acts:** child, I, rich Don Giovanni · **What happens:** answer, guess, look · **To what, where:** king

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, I, rich Don Giovanni), 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:pg5615:39:57
# text = ‘Ah, child,’ answered the king, ‘how could I ever guess that the rich Don Giovanni would ever look like that?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | child |  | the king |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
| 2 | **guess** | could | I |  |  |  | ever |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | would | the rich Don Giovanni |  |  |  | ever | like that | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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