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title: Even King Gridelin, who had never cared for anything since the disap… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Even King Gridelin, who had never cared for anything since the disappearance of Queen Santorina, was roused by this new loss, and though he could not so much as look at the Princess Placida without shedding floods of tears, he resolved to see for himself what talents and capabilities she showed. Who
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 16

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Even King Gridelin, who had never cared for anything since the disappearance of Queen Santorina, was roused by this new loss, and though he could not so much as look at the Princess Placida without shedding floods of tears, he resolved to see for himself what talents and capabilities she showed.

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**Who acts:** new loss, Vivien, talents, Queen, tears · **What happens:** not care, rouse, look, shed, resolve, see · **To what, where:** King, floods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (new loss, Vivien, talents, Queen), 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:pg7277:36:16
# text = Even King Gridelin, who had never cared for anything since the disappearance of Queen Santorina, was roused by this new loss, and though he could not so much as look at the Princess Placida without shedding floods of tears, he resolved to see for himself what talents and capabilities she showed.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Santorina	Santorina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advcl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Placida	Placida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
40	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	obl	_	_
50	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	55	obj	_	_
51	talents	talent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	capabilities	capability	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | past · perfect · passive |  | King |  |  |  | for anything | tree rules |
| 2 | **rouse** | past · passive | this new loss | King |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at the Princess Placida | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at placida=Theme |
| 4 | **shed** | gerund |  | floods of tears |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flood=Source |
| 5 | **resolve** | past | Vivien |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | Vivien *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Vivien | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **show** | past | talents and capabilities |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 8 | **disappear** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **flood** |  | tears |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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