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title: A miserable King who breaks his word, and goes about in a chariot dr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A miserable King who breaks his word, and goes about in a chariot drawn by croaking frogs out of a marsh!’ Who acts: miserable King, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 24

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A miserable King who breaks his word, and goes about in a chariot drawn by croaking frogs out of a marsh!’

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**Who acts:** miserable King, King · **What happens:** break, go about, draw, croak, word · **To what, where:** word, chariot, frogs, marsh

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (miserable King, 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:pg7277:3:24
# text = A miserable King who breaks his word, and goes about in a chariot drawn by croaking frogs out of a marsh!’
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | a miserable King | King's word |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient |
| 2 | **go about** | present | a miserable King |  |  | a chariot |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | participle |  | a chariot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **croak** | gerund |  | frogs |  | a marsh |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frog=Theme |
| 5 | **word** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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