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title: The journey lasted seven years, and all this time the queen suffered… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The journey lasted seven years, and all this time the queen suffered tortures of hope, though Muffette did her best to comfort her. Who acts: journey, queen, Muffette. 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 58

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The journey lasted seven years, and all this time the queen suffered tortures of hope, though Muffette did her best to comfort her.

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**Who acts:** journey, queen, Muffette · **What happens:** last, suffer, do, comfort, torture · **To what, where:** tortures, Muffette, hope

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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 (journey, queen, Muffette), 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:pg3027:28:58
# text = The journey lasted seven years, and all this time the queen suffered tortures of hope, though Muffette did her best to comfort her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	tortures	torture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Muffette	Muffette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | the journey |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | past | the queen | tortures of hope |  |  | time |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torture=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | Muffette |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **comfort** | to-infinitive |  | Muffette |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 5 | **torture** |  |  | hope |  |  |  |  | nom torture «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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