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title: The servants, each anxious to find her, as the queen was certain to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The servants, each anxious to find her, as the queen was certain to reward the lucky man, searched in the most impossible places. Who acts: queen. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 112

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The servants, each anxious to find her, as the queen was certain to reward the lucky man, searched in the most impossible places.

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**Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** find, be, reward, search · **To what, where:** kitten, lucky man, impossible places

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. 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:pg3282:27:112
# text = The servants, each anxious to find her, as the queen was certain to reward the lucky man, searched in the most impossible places.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | kitten |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reward** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  | the lucky man |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 4 | **search** | participle |  | the lucky man *not said here* |  | the impossible places |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |

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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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