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title: And seeing this, the old King fell sick with anxiety: and he said to… — The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth · tree and pragmatics
description: And seeing this, the old King fell sick with anxiety: and he said to himself: My pretty daughter is as cunning as she is beautiful, and beyond a doubt this is some trick devised by her, to appease me, and avoid her bugbear of a husband, and befool us all. Who acts: old King, King, pretty daughter, d
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# The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 112

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And seeing this, the old King fell sick with anxiety: and he said to himself: My pretty daughter is as cunning as she is beautiful, and beyond a doubt this is some trick devised by her, to appease me, and avoid her bugbear of a husband, and befool us all.

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**Who acts:** old King, King, pretty daughter, daughter, this · **What happens:** see, fall, say, be, devise, appease · **To what, where:** this, King, trick, me, bugbear, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., 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 (old King, King, pretty daughter, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg68641:3:112
# text = And seeing this, the old King fell sick with anxiety: and he said to himself: My pretty daughter is as cunning as she is beautiful, and beyond a doubt this is some trick devised by her, to appease me, and avoid her bugbear of a husband, and befool us all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
31	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	devised	devise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	appease	appease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	bugbear	bugbear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	befool	befool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
56	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | the old King *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the old King |  |  |  |  | with anxiety; sick *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  | King |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | My pretty daughter |  |  |  |  | cunning *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | daughter |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | this | some trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **devise** | participle |  | some trick *not said here* |  |  |  | by daughter | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **appease** | to-infinitive | My pretty daughter *not said here* | me |  |  |  | beyond a doubt | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 9 | **avoid** | infinitive | My pretty daughter *not said here* | daughter's bugbear of a husband |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bugbear=Location |
| 10 | **befool** | infinitive | My pretty daughter *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | 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 descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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