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title: King Arthur and his whole court were so sorry at the loss of their l… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: King Arthur and his whole court were so sorry at the loss of their little favourite that they went into mourning and raised a fine white marble monument over his grave with the following epitaph: Who acts: King Arthur, spiders. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 61

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King Arthur and his whole court were so sorry at the loss of their little favourite that they went into mourning and raised a fine white marble monument over his grave with the following epitaph:

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**Who acts:** King Arthur, spiders · **What happens:** be, go, raise, follow · **To what, where:** loss, mourning, fine white marble monument, grave

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Arthur, spiders), 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:pg7439:28:61
# text = King Arthur and his whole court were so sorry at the loss of their little favourite that they went into mourning and raised a fine white marble monument over his grave with the following epitaph:
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	case	_	_
35	epitaph	epitaph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | King Arthur and Arthur's whole court |  |  | the loss |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | spiders *= spider* |  |  | mourning |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into mourning=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **raise** | past | spiders *= spider* *not said here* | a fine white marble monument |  | Arthur's grave with the epitaph |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monument=Theme over grave=Destination |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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