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title: Now the smell and touch of the flowers had made the queen sick with… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the smell and touch of the flowers had made the queen sick with longing for her home, and she told the frog that she would certainly die if she did not manage to escape somehow. Who acts: queen, flowers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 12

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Now the smell and touch of the flowers had made the queen sick with longing for her home, and she told the frog that she would certainly die if she did not manage to escape somehow.

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**Who acts:** queen, flowers · **What happens:** make, long, tell, die, not manage, not escape · **To what, where:** smell, frog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, 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:pg3027:28:12
# text = Now the smell and touch of the flowers had made the queen sick with longing for her home, and she told the frog that she would certainly die if she did not manage to escape somehow.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the smell of the flowers and touch |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary queen=Product |
| 2 | **long** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for queen's home | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for home=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | queen |  | the frog |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **die** *not said to happen* | would | queen |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **escape** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | somehow *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **smell** |  | the flowers |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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