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title: On hearing this frightful announcement, the King and Queen gave a cr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On hearing this frightful announcement, the King and Queen gave a cry of despair, and entreated the Fairies to find some remedy for such an unheard-of misfortune. Who acts: King, despair. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 10

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On hearing this frightful announcement, the King and Queen gave a cry of despair, and entreated the Fairies to find some remedy for such an unheard-of misfortune.

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**Who acts:** King, despair · **What happens:** hear, give, entreat, find, cry · **To what, where:** frightful announcement, cry, Fairies, remedy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (King, despair), 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:pg7277:16:10
# text = On hearing this frightful announcement, the King and Queen gave a cry of despair, and entreated the Fairies to find some remedy for such an unheard-of misfortune.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	announcement	announcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	unheard	unheard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the King and Queen *not said here* | this frightful announcement |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer announcement=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | the King and Queen | a cry of despair |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 3 | **entreat** | past | the King and Queen *not said here* |  | the Fairies |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | the King and Queen *not said here* | some remedy |  |  |  | for such unheard misfortune | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme for misfortune=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **cry** |  | despair |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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