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title: The widowed queen was greatly grieved at the way the boy king had ta… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The widowed queen was greatly grieved at the way the boy king had taken her words; still, she thought it best now to help him on his way, rather than to thwart him. Who acts: boy king, queen. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 22

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The widowed queen was greatly grieved at the way the boy king had taken her words; still, she thought it best now to help him on his way, rather than to thwart him.

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**Who acts:** boy king, queen · **What happens:** widow, grieve, take, think, help, thwart · **To what, where:** widowed queen, words, way, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy king, queen), 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:pg76982:19:22
# text = The widowed queen was greatly grieved at the way the boy king had taken her words; still, she thought it best now to help him on his way, rather than to thwart him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	widowed	widow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	expl	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	ccomp	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	35	cc	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	thwart	thwart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **widow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grieve** | past · passive |  | the widowed queen |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | the boy king | queen's words |  | the way |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent word=Theme at way=Asset |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | queen |  |  |  | still; now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | king | king's way |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **thwart** | to-infinitive |  | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **word** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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