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title: And the new queen was very pleased, and sent messengers to fetch the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the new queen was very pleased, and sent messengers to fetch the boy, and in his father’s court he stayed, while the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophecy had foretold that he was to win for his wife Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr. Who acts: new queen, man, year
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 28

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And the new queen was very pleased, and sent messengers to fetch the boy, and in his father’s court he stayed, while the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophecy had foretold that he was to win for his wife Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr.

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**Who acts:** new queen, man, years, queen · **What happens:** be, send, fetch, stay, go, tell · **To what, where:** messengers, boy, court, man, prophecy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new queen, man, years, 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:pg3454:38:28
# text = And the new queen was very pleased, and sent messengers to fetch the boy, and in his father’s court he stayed, while the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophecy had foretold that he was to win for his wife Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	ccomp	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the new queen |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | messengers |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | past | man |  |  | man's father's court |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in court=Location |
| 5 | **go** | past | the years |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the queen |  | man |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **foretell** | past · perfect · passive |  | a prophecy |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | for man's wife; the daughter of Yspaddaden *obl*; win *property* | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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