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title: The queen, who loved her husband dearly, would gladly have remained… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen, who loved her husband dearly, would gladly have remained with him to share his dangers, but he would not allow it. Who acts: queen, king. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 11

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The queen, who loved her husband dearly, would gladly have remained with him to share his dangers, but he would not allow it.

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**Who acts:** queen, king · **What happens:** love, remain, share, not allow · **To what, where:** husband, dangers, thing

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. 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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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3027:1712`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:27:11
# text = The queen, who loved her husband dearly, would gladly have remained with him to share his dangers, but he would not allow it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the queen | queen's husband |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
| 2 | **remain** | would · perfect | the queen |  |  |  |  | with king; gladly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* | king's dangers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **allow** | would | king | thing |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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