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title: For some days the queen was so much shaken by all she had gone throu… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some days the queen was so much shaken by all she had gone through that she lay with her eyes closed, unable either to move or speak. Who acts: queen. 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 48

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For some days the queen was so much shaken by all she had gone through that she lay with her eyes closed, unable either to move or speak.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** shake, go through, lie, close, move, speak · **To what, where:** queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg3027:27:48
# text = For some days the queen was so much shaken by all she had gone through that she lay with her eyes closed, unable either to move or speak.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc:preconj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past · passive |  | the queen |  |  | day | by all | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme by all=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go through** | past · perfect | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | with queen's eyes | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** | participle | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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