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title: King Charming thereupon became so cheerful, and interested in all he… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: King Charming thereupon became so cheerful, and interested in all he said, that it was easy to guess how much he admired the Princess. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 50

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King Charming thereupon became so cheerful, and interested in all he said, that it was easy to guess how much he admired the Princess.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** become, say, be, guess, admire · **To what, where:** Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (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:pg7277:2:50
# text = King Charming thereupon became so cheerful, and interested in all he said, that it was easy to guess how much he admired the Princess.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	expl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | King |  |  |  |  | cheerful, thereupon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **guess** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **admire** | past | King | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |

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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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