--- title: But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when she felt that her end dr… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when she felt that her end drew near she called the king to her and said, ‘Promise me that you will never marry again, unless you meet with a wife who is as beautiful as I am, and who has golden hair like mine.’ Who acts: beautiful queen, queen, end, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful queen, queen, end, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:59:149 # text = But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when she felt that her end drew near she called the king to her and said, ‘Promise me that you will never marry again, unless you meet with a wife who is as beautiful as I am, and who has golden hair like mine.’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 near near ADP IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 as as ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 52 nsubj _ _ 52 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 53 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 like like ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | this beautiful queen | | | | | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | past | queen | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **draw** | past | queen's end | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | past | queen | the king | end | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Topic to she=Recipient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen's end *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 7 | **not** **marry** | future | you | | | | again | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | with a wife | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | a wife | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **have** | present | | golden hair | | | | like mine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | 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. **Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/150/) - ↑ back to [Iron Hans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/)