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title: One was too harsh, and another reminded the queen of somebody she di… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One was too harsh, and another reminded the queen of somebody she did not like; but at length an idea flashed into the queen's head, and she called out: Who acts: One, another, queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 24

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One was too harsh, and another reminded the queen of somebody she did not like; but at length an idea flashed into the queen's head, and she called out:

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**Who acts:** One, another, queen · **What happens:** be, remind, not like, flash, call out · **To what, where:** queen, idea, head

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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 (One, another, 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:pg3027:28:24
# text = One was too harsh, and another reminded the queen of somebody she did not like; but at length an idea flashed into the queen's head, and she called out:
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reminded	remind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | One |  |  |  |  | harsh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | another |  | the queen of somebody |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **flash** | participle |  | a idea *not said here* |  | the queen's head |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into head=Recipient |
| 5 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | queen |  |  |  |  | at length | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at length=Stimulus |

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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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