--- title: On 22 March 2024 the Princess of Wales announced in a video that she… — The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a… · tree and pragmatics description: On 22 March 2024 the Princess of Wales announced in a video that she had cancer and was having chemotherapy, strong medicine to stop it coming back, and asked for privacy. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of the lesson «The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illne --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [The royal family in the news: a queen'…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/) / 17 # The royal family in the news: a queen's death, a coronation, titles lost and illnesses announced, sentence 17 On 22 March 2024 the Princess of Wales announced in a video that she had cancer and was having chemotherapy, strong medicine to stop it coming back, and asked for privacy. **Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** announce, have, stop, come back, ask · **To what, where:** video, cancer, chemotherapy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Princess), 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:17 # text = On 22 March 2024 the Princess of Wales announced in a video that she had cancer and was having chemotherapy, strong medicine to stop it coming back, and asked for privacy. # 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 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Princess princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 16 cancer cancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 20 chemotherapy chemotherapy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 privacy privacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the Princess of Wales | | | a video | march | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | past | Princess | cancer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cancer=Patient | | 3 | **have** | past · progressive | Princess *not said here* | chemotherapy and strong medicine | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemotherapy=Patient | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | chemotherapy | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come back** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Princess of Wales *not said here* | | | | | for privacy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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