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title: Then the queen dried her eyes, and waited patiently, and long before… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the queen dried her eyes, and waited patiently, and long before the hour had gone by the bat flew in with all the most beautiful and sweetest flowers that grew on the earth. Who acts: queen, hour, sweetest flowers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 10

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Then the queen dried her eyes, and waited patiently, and long before the hour had gone by the bat flew in with all the most beautiful and sweetest flowers that grew on the earth.

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**Who acts:** queen, hour, sweetest flowers · **What happens:** dry, wait, go, fly in, grow · **To what, where:** eyes, earth

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, hour, sweetest flowers), 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:pg3027:28:10
# text = Then the queen dried her eyes, and waited patiently, and long before the hour had gone by the bat flew in with all the most beautiful and sweetest flowers that grew on the earth.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | past | the queen | queen's eyes |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result |
| 2 | **wait** | past | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | the hour |  |  |  |  | by the bat | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bat=Location |
| 4 | **fly in** | past | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | past | sweetest flowers |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |

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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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