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description: And at last they came home again, and the queen was waiting and watching in the palace, as she had never ceased to do since her son had rode away. Who acts: mud, queen, son. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 6

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And at last they came home again, and the queen was waiting and watching in the palace, as she had never ceased to do since her son had rode away.

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**Who acts:** mud, queen, son · **What happens:** come, wait, watch, not cease, do, have · **To what, where:** last, palace, queen

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mud, queen, son), 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:pg2435:38:6
# text = And at last they came home again, and the queen was waiting and watching in the palace, as she had never ceased to do since her son had rode away.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
31	rode	rode	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | mud |  |  | last | again | home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **wait** | past · progressive | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | the queen *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location |
| 4 | **not** **cease** | past · perfect · passive |  | queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | past | queen's son |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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