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title: Then sang the Queen of Elfland as the court turned away and began to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then sang the Queen of Elfland as the court turned away and began to resume its march: Who acts: court. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 84

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Then sang the Queen of Elfland as the court turned away and began to resume its march:

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**Who acts:** court · **What happens:** sing, turn away, begin, resume · **To what, where:** Queen, march

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court), 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:pg14241:29:84
# text = Then sang the Queen of Elfland as the court turned away and began to resume its march:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Elfland	Elfland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	resume	resume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | the Queen of Elfland |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme |
| 2 | **turn away** | past | the court |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the court *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **resume** | to-infinitive | the court *not said here* | mantle's march |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Eventuality |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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