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title: It was only on the next day that they missed him; the King was very… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was only on the next day that they missed him; the King was very distressed at his disappearance, and sent search-parties all over the kingdom to look for him, but in vain; and after six months they gave him up as dead, and in another six months they had forgotten all about him. Who acts: horse, 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 57

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It was only on the next day that they missed him; the King was very distressed at his disappearance, and sent search-parties all over the kingdom to look for him, but in vain; and after six months they gave him up as dead, and in another six months they had forgotten all about him.

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**Who acts:** horse, purses, King · **What happens:** be, miss, distress, send, look, give up · **To what, where:** King, disappearance, search parties, next day

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, purses, 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:pg640:30:57
# text = It was only on the next day that they missed him; the King was very distressed at his disappearance, and sent search-parties all over the kingdom to look for him, but in vain; and after six months they gave him up as dead, and in another six months they had forgotten all about him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	distressed	distress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
24	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	iobj	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	55	det	_	_
54	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
55	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	conj	_	_
59	all	all	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
60	about	about	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | horse |  |  |  | on the next day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** | past | purses *= purse* | King |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **distress** | past · passive |  | the King |  | King's disappearance |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **send** | participle |  | search parties |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for King | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
| 6 | **give up** | past | purses *= purse* | the next day *not said here* | King |  | month | as dead | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source |
| 7 | **forget** | past · perfect | purses *= purse* |  |  |  | month | about King | tree rules |
| 8 | **disappear** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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 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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