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title: The king had never been so glad in his life; and the queen asked tha… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The king had never been so glad in his life; and the queen asked that the creature which had done such wonders should be brought to her. Who acts: king, queen, creature. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 20

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The king had never been so glad in his life; and the queen asked that the creature which had done such wonders should be brought to her.

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**Who acts:** king, queen, creature · **What happens:** have, not be, ask, do, bring · **To what, where:** life, such wonders, creature, queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, creature), 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:pg18442:52:20
# text = The king had never been so glad in his life; and the queen asked that the creature which had done such wonders should be brought to her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle | the king *not said here* |  |  | king's life |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | the creature | such wonders |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bring** | should · passive |  | the creature | queen |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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