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title: About eight days afterward the wicked Queen said to the clerk of the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: About eight days afterward the wicked Queen said to the clerk of the kitchen, “I will sup on little Day.” Who acts: eight days. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 92

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About eight days afterward the wicked Queen said to the clerk of the kitchen, “I will sup on little Day.”

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**Who acts:** eight days · **What happens:** say, sup · **To what, where:** clerk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eight days), 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:pg503:10:92
# text = About eight days afterward the wicked Queen said to the clerk of the kitchen, “I will sup on little Day.”
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	afterward	afterward	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sup	sup	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | eight days afterward the wicked Queen |  | the clerk of the kitchen |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to clerk=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sup** *in a quote* | future | eight days afterward the wicked Queen *= day* |  |  |  | on little Day |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on day=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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