--- title: Now the queen had only been married a few months, and in her own hom… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the queen had only been married a few months, and in her own home she had been used to walk and ride all over the hills without any attendants at all; so she felt very dull at her being shut up in this way. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/) / 14 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 14 Now the queen had only been married a few months, and in her own home she had been used to walk and ride all over the hills without any attendants at all; so she felt very dull at her being shut up in this way. **Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** marry, use, walk, ride, feel, shut up · **To what, where:** queen, own home, hills, way 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), 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:pg3027:27:14 # text = Now the queen had only been married a few months, and in her own home she had been used to walk and ride all over the hills without any attendants at all; so she felt very dull at her being shut up in this way. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 25 all all ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 29 without without ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 40 at at SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 44 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 47 det _ _ 47 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive | | the queen | | queen's own home | now; month | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **use** | past · perfect · passive | | queen | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ride** | infinitive | | the hills | | | | without any attendants at all | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | past | queen | | | | | dull *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **shut up** | gerund · passive | queen *not said here* | | | this way | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/15/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/)