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title: The king stared with surprise at the sight of the ring, but he thoug… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king stared with surprise at the sight of the ring, but he thought of another way of getting rid of the young man which was surer even than the other two. Who acts: king, way, young man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its depend
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 41

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The king stared with surprise at the sight of the ring, but he thought of another way of getting rid of the young man which was surer even than the other two.

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**Who acts:** king, way, young man · **What happens:** stare, think, get, be, sight · **To what, where:** ring

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, way, young man), 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:pg641:42:41
# text = The king stared with surprise at the sight of the ring, but he thought of another way of getting rid of the young man which was surer even than the other two.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	surer	sure	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | with surprise; at the sight of the ring | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king |  |  |  |  | of another way | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | another way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | than the other two; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the ring |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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