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title: So, to the despair of King Gridelin, the Queen first of all became v… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, to the despair of King Gridelin, the Queen first of all became very ill, and then disappeared altogether. Who acts: despair, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 6

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So, to the despair of King Gridelin, the Queen first of all became very ill, and then disappeared altogether.

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**Who acts:** despair, King · **What happens:** become, disappear, despair

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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 (despair, 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:pg7277:36:6
# text = So, to the despair of King Gridelin, the Queen first of all became very ill, and then disappeared altogether.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Gridelin	Gridelin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
15	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the despair of King and the Queen of all |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | the despair of King and the Queen of all *not said here* |  |  |  | then | altogether *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **despair** |  | King and the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «state 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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