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title: Now, his first love heard of this, and the thought of her lover’s de… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, his first love heard of this, and the thought of her lover’s desertion grieved her so sadly that she pined away and nearly died. Who acts: first love, thought, love, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 11

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Now, his first love heard of this, and the thought of her lover’s desertion grieved her so sadly that she pined away and nearly died.

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**Who acts:** first love, thought, love, King, lover · **What happens:** hear, grieve, pine away, die, love, think · **To what, where:** love, desertion

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first love, thought, love, 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:pg7277:43:11
# text = Now, his first love heard of this, and the thought of her lover’s desertion grieved her so sadly that she pined away and nearly died.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	desertion	desertion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	pined	pine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | King's first love |  |  |  | now | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grieve** | past | the thought of thought's lover's desertion | love |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pine away** | past | love |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **die** | past | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **love** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **think** |  |  | thought's lover's desertion |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **desert** |  | thought's lover |  |  |  |  |  | nom desertion «act 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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