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title: The King, in spite of his grief, was much amused on hearing these wo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The King, in spite of his grief, was much amused on hearing these words from the Mouse. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 27

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The King, in spite of his grief, was much amused on hearing these words from the Mouse.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, hear, spite · **To what, where:** words, grief

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:20:27
# text = The King, in spite of his grief, was much amused on hearing these words from the Mouse.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	amused	amused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | amused *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | the King *not said here* | this words |  |  |  | from the Mouse | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Topic from mouse=Source |
| 3 | **spite** |  |  | King's grief |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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