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title: The combat was declared unnecessary, and the queen pronounced hersel… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The combat was declared unnecessary, and the queen pronounced herself quite satisfied, and ready to accept Rosald as her husband. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 53

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The combat was declared unnecessary, and the queen pronounced herself quite satisfied, and ready to accept Rosald as her husband.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** declare, pronounce, accept · **To what, where:** combat, queen, Rosald

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg3282:13:53
# text = The combat was declared unnecessary, and the queen pronounced herself quite satisfied, and ready to accept Rosald as her husband.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the combat |  |  |  | unnecessary *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **pronounce** | past | the queen | queen |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 3 | **accept** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* | Rosald |  |  |  | as queen's husband | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rosald=Theme as husband=Attribute |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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