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title: It looked soft and comfortable, and the queen was very glad to lie d… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It looked soft and comfortable, and the queen was very glad to lie down upon it, so tired was she with all that had happened since the morning. Who acts: tree, queen, all. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 99

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It looked soft and comfortable, and the queen was very glad to lie down upon it, so tired was she with all that had happened since the morning.

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**Who acts:** tree, queen, all · **What happens:** look, be, lie down, happen · **To what, where:** tree, queen

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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 (tree, queen, all), 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:pg3027:27:99
# text = It looked soft and comfortable, and the queen was very glad to lie down upon it, so tired was she with all that had happened since the morning.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	conj	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	since	since	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie down** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  |  | tree |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past | tree *not said here* | queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | past · perfect | all |  |  |  | morning |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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