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title: Then the whole thing dawned on the King, and groaning deeply he mutt… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the whole thing dawned on the King, and groaning deeply he muttered to himself ‘So this is what I did not know about,’ and the tears rolled down his cheeks. Who acts: KING, this, I, tears. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 29

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Then the whole thing dawned on the King, and groaning deeply he muttered to himself ‘So this is what I did not know about,’ and the tears rolled down his cheeks.

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**Who acts:** KING, this, I, tears · **What happens:** dawn, groan, mutter, be, not know about, roll down · **To what, where:** whole thing, KING, cheeks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KING, this, I, tears), 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:pg7277:27:29
# text = Then the whole thing dawned on the King, and groaning deeply he muttered to himself ‘So this is what I did not know about,’ and the tears rolled down his cheeks.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
11	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
12	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	So	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | participle |  | the whole thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **groan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | KING |  | KING |  |  | deeply *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | the whole thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **know about** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **roll down** | past | the tears | KING's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cheek=Theme |

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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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