--- title: Sunk deep in thought over the fickleness of fortune that had granted… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Sunk deep in thought over the fickleness of fortune that had granted him two of his wishes and now seemed about to deny him the last and best, the Prince hardly noticed the absurd equipage, and still less did he feel inclined to laugh at its comic appearance. Who acts: Prince. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg7277:30:29 # text = Sunk deep in thought over the fickleness of fortune that had granted him two of his wishes and now seemed about to deny him the last and best, the Prince hardly noticed the absurd equipage, and still less did he feel inclined to laugh at its comic appearance. 1 Sunk sink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 deep deep ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fickleness fickleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 granted grant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 about about SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 deny deny VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 absurd absurd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 equipage equipage NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 43 advmod _ _ 41 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 parataxis _ _ 44 inclined inclined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 49 comic comic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sink** | participle | | | | thought over the fickleness of fortune | | deep *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **grant** | past · perfect · passive | | the fickleness of fortune | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seem** | past | | | | | now | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **deny** | to-infinitive | | Prince | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 5 | **notice** | past | the Prince | the absurd equipage | | | | hardly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer equipage=Stimulus | | 6 | **feel** | past · do-support | Prince | | | | | inclined, less *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | | | equipage's comic appearance | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **wish** | | Prince | | | | | | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/30/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/30/30/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/30/)