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title: And in all this the queen guessed truly, save that nine long years w… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in all this the queen guessed truly, save that nine long years were to pass before he would consent to put another in her place. Who acts: queen, father. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 39

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And in all this the queen guessed truly, save that nine long years were to pass before he would consent to put another in her place.

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**Who acts:** queen, father · **What happens:** guess, pass, consent, put · **To what, where:** another, place

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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, father), 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:pg3027:28:39
# text = And in all this the queen guessed truly, save that nine long years were to pass before he would consent to put another in her place.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	save	save	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | all queen |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | past | all queen *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **consent** | would | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | another |  | queen's place |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme in place=Destination |

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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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