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title: Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who loved each other d… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who loved each other dearly, and would have been perfectly happy if they had only had a little son or daughter to play with. Who acts: queen, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 30

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Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who loved each other dearly, and would have been perfectly happy if they had only had a little son or daughter to play with.

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**Who acts:** queen, king · **What happens:** live, love, be, have, play · **To what, where:** king, each, little son

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, king), 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:pg3027:22:30
# text = Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who loved each other dearly, and would have been perfectly happy if they had only had a little son or daughter to play with.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obj	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a king and queen |  | there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
| 2 | **love** | past | queen | each |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | happy, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | king | a little son or daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **play** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | a little son or daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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