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title: In January 2024 Kensington Palace announced that the Princess of Wal… — The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In January 2024 Kensington Palace announced that the Princess of Wales had had planned surgery on her tummy and would be away until after Easter; the online theories about her absence were rumours, and none were true. Who acts: Kensington Palace, Princess, online theories, none. A sentence of the le
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# The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 15

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In January 2024 Kensington Palace announced that the Princess of Wales had had planned surgery on her tummy and would be away until after Easter; the online theories about her absence were rumours, and none were true.

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**Who acts:** Kensington Palace, Princess, online theories, none · **What happens:** announce, have, plan, be, absent · **To what, where:** planned surgery, tummy, rumours · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kensington Palace, Princess, online theories, none), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson:15
# text = In January 2024 Kensington Palace announced that the Princess of Wales had had planned surgery on her tummy and would be away until after Easter; the online theories about her absence were rumours, and none were true.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 045-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	2024	2024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	Kensington	Kensington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	announced	announce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Princess	princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
14	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	surgery	surgery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	theories	theory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	rumours	rumour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | Kensington Palace |  |  |  | january |  | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past · perfect | the Princess of Wales | planned surgery |  | Princess's tummy |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient |
| 3 | **plan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would | the Princess of Wales *not said here* |  |  |  | until Easter | away *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the online theories about Princess's absence | rumours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | none |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **absent** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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