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title: The king and queen wished for nothing better than that their daughte… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king and queen wished for nothing better than that their daughter marry into such a great and powerful family, and received the ambassador with every sign of welcome. Who acts: daughter, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 90

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The king and queen wished for nothing better than that their daughter marry into such a great and powerful family, and received the ambassador with every sign of welcome.

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**Who acts:** daughter, king · **What happens:** wish, marry, receive, sign · **To what, where:** king, great family, ambassador, welcome

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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 (daughter, 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:pg3027:22:90
# text = The king and queen wished for nothing better than that their daughter marry into such a great and powerful family, and received the ambassador with every sign of welcome.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | participle |  | the king and queen *not said here* |  |  |  | for nothing | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | infinitive | king's daughter |  |  | such great family |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | past | the king and queen | the ambassador |  |  |  | with every sign of welcome | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | welcome |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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