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title: Simon then pretended to be seized with remorse at the sight of this… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Simon then pretended to be seized with remorse at the sight of this dreadful catastrophe, and cried out in a loud voice, ‘Unhappy wretch that I am! Who acts: Simon, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 83

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Simon then pretended to be seized with remorse at the sight of this dreadful catastrophe, and cried out in a loud voice, ‘Unhappy wretch that I am!

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**Who acts:** Simon, I · **What happens:** pretend, seize, cry out, be, sight · **To what, where:** sight, loud voice, that, dreadful catastrophe

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Simon, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:2071`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:26:83
# text = Simon then pretended to be seized with remorse at the sight of this dreadful catastrophe, and cried out in a loud voice, ‘Unhappy wretch that I am!
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	remorse	remorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	acl:relcl	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
30	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | Simon |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | to-infinitive · passive | Simon *not said here* |  |  | the sight of this dreadful catastrophe |  | with remorse | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Simon *not said here* |  |  | a loud voice |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | this dreadful catastrophe |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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