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title: But the father was no longer there, for the loss of his son had kill… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the father was no longer there, for the loss of his son had killed him; and on his deathbed he confessed to his people how he had contrived that the old wizard should carry away a peasant’s child instead of the prince, wherefore this punishment had fallen upon him. Who acts: father, loss, old wi
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 69

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But the father was no longer there, for the loss of his son had killed him; and on his deathbed he confessed to his people how he had contrived that the old wizard should carry away a peasant’s child instead of the prince, wherefore this punishment had fallen upon him.

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**Who acts:** father, loss, old wizard, punishment · **What happens:** be, kill, confess, contrive, carry away, fall · **To what, where:** father, deathbed, people

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (father, loss, old wizard, punishment), 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:pg641:11:69
# text = But the father was no longer there, for the loss of his son had killed him; and on his deathbed he confessed to his people how he had contrived that the old wizard should carry away a peasant’s child instead of the prince, wherefore this punishment had fallen upon him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	deathbed	deathbed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	contrived	contrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
38	away	away	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
43	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	46	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	fixed	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
49	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	acl:relcl	_	_
53	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	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 | the father |  |  |  |  | long, there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | past · perfect | the loss *not said here* | father |  |  |  | of father's son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme of son=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **confess** | past | father | father's deathbed *not said here* | father's people |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent deathbed=Topic to people=Recipient |
| 4 | **contrive** | past · perfect | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **carry away** | should | the old wizard |  |  |  |  | instead the prince; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fall** | past · perfect | this punishment |  |  |  |  | upon father; wherefore *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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