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title: After everything was done he sat himself down in his lonely cottage… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After everything was done he sat himself down in his lonely cottage and wept bitterly, and the bitterest thought of all was that he would never be able to forget that he had eaten his own wife. Who acts: peasant, bitterest thought. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy B
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 35

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After everything was done he sat himself down in his lonely cottage and wept bitterly, and the bitterest thought of all was that he would never be able to forget that he had eaten his own wife.

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**Who acts:** peasant, bitterest thought · **What happens:** do, sit down, weep, not be, forget, eat · **To what, where:** everything, peasant, lonely cottage, own wife · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, bitterest thought), 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:pg5615:4:35
# text = After everything was done he sat himself down in his lonely cottage and wept bitterly, and the bitterest thought of all was that he would never be able to forget that he had eaten his own wife.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bitterest	bitter	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | peasant | peasant |  | peasant's lonely cottage |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weep** | past | peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | would · past | the bitterest thought of all |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **forget** | to-infinitive | the bitterest thought of all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | past · perfect | peasant | peasant's own wife |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |

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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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