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title: Whereupon the king expressed his sorrow for having sent him away, an… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whereupon the king expressed his sorrow for having sent him away, and all was joy and peace again. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 69

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Whereupon the king expressed his sorrow for having sent him away, and all was joy and peace again.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** express, send away, be, sorrow · **To what, where:** sorrow, king, joy

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7128:18:69
# text = Whereupon the king expressed his sorrow for having sent him away, and all was joy and peace again.
1	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **express** | past | the king | king's sorrow |  |  | again | whereupon *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme |
| 2 | **send away** | gerund · perfect | the king *not said here* | king |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the king *not said here* | all joy and peace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sorrow** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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