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title: She wept and sobbed until even the King’s attention was attracted; a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She wept and sobbed until even the King’s attention was attracted; and when she said that, far from coming to try and diminish his grief, she, who had just lost a good husband, was come to add her tears to his, since she knew what he must be feeling, the King redoubled his lamentations. Who acts: la
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 8

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She wept and sobbed until even the King’s attention was attracted; and when she said that, far from coming to try and diminish his grief, she, who had just lost a good husband, was come to add her tears to his, since she knew what he must be feeling, the King redoubled his lamentations.

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**Who acts:** lady, King · **What happens:** weep, sob, attract, say, come, try · **To what, where:** attention, grief, good husband, tears, lamentations · **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 (lady, 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:pg7277:2:8
# text = She wept and sobbed until even the King’s attention was attracted; and when she said that, far from coming to try and diminish his grief, she, who had just lost a good husband, was come to add her tears to his, since she knew what he must be feeling, the King redoubled his lamentations.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	diminish	diminish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
52	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	56	obj	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux	_	_
56	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	redoubled	redouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
61	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sob** | past | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attract** | past · passive |  | the King's attention |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **diminish** | infinitive |  | King's grief |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer grief=Patient |
| 8 | **lose** | past · perfect | lady | a good husband |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality |
| 9 | **is** | past | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | come *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | lady's tears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **know** | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 12 | **feel** | must · progressive | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 13 | **redouble** | past | the King | King's lamentations |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lamentation=Patient |
| 14 | **attend** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 15 | **lament** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: 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:** «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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