--- title: But he answered that he was so unhappy that he had ceased to mind an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But he answered that he was so unhappy that he had ceased to mind anything, even being eaten, and then he told her that he had been robbed of a palace that had not its equal in all the world, and of all that was in it, and that he had even left his wife, and was wandering over the world until he fou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/) / 60 # The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 60 But he answered that he was so unhappy that he had ceased to mind anything, even being eaten, and then he told her that he had been robbed of a palace that had not its equal in all the world, and of all that was in it, and that he had even left his wife, and was wandering over the world until he found it. **Who acts:** sun, palace, all · **What happens:** answer, be, cease, mind, eat, tell · **To what, where:** anything, woman, sun, home, wife, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, palace, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:20:60 # text = But he answered that he was so unhappy that he had ceased to mind anything, even being eaten, and then he told her that he had been robbed of a palace that had not its equal in all the world, and of all that was in it, and that he had even left his wife, and was wandering over the world until he found it. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 ceased cease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 robbed rob VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 50 nsubj _ _ 47 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 obj _ _ 48 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 53 that that SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 55 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 56 even even ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 57 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 58 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 63 wandering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 64 over over ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 67 until until SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 68 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 69 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 63 advcl _ _ 70 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | sun | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | sun | | | | | unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cease** | past · perfect | sun | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **mind** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | gerund · passive | sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | sun | | woman | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **rob** | past · perfect · passive | | sun | | | | of a palace | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of palace=Source | | 8 | **have** | past | a palace | | | | | equal *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | past | all | | | home | | | tree rules | | 10 | **leave** | past · perfect | sun | sun's wife | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | | 11 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | sun *not said here* | | | the world | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 12 | **find** | past | sun | home | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/61/) - ↑ back to [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/)