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title: But sad though everybody was, the Prince of the Golden Isle was perf… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But sad though everybody was, the Prince of the Golden Isle was perfectly inconsolable, and he passed both days and nights in bemoaning his loss. Who acts: everybody, most. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 37

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But sad though everybody was, the Prince of the Golden Isle was perfectly inconsolable, and he passed both days and nights in bemoaning his loss.

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**Who acts:** everybody, most · **What happens:** be, pass, bemoan · **To what, where:** everybody, loss

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, most), 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:pg640:16:37
# text = But sad though everybody was, the Prince of the Golden Isle was perfectly inconsolable, and he passed both days and nights in bemoaning his loss.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
4	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bemoaning	bemoan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | everybody |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | everybody |  |  |  |  | inconsolable, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past | most |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bemoan** | gerund | most *not said here* | most's loss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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