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title: This was hitherto all mighty well; but one evening this wicked Queen… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This was hitherto all mighty well; but one evening this wicked Queen said to her clerk of the kitchen: Who acts: This. 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 96

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This was hitherto all mighty well; but one evening this wicked Queen said to her clerk of the kitchen:

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, say · **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 (This), 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:pg503:10:96
# text = This was hitherto all mighty well; but one evening this wicked Queen said to her clerk of the kitchen:
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | all, hitherto, mighty, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | This *not said here* |  | queen's clerk of the kitchen |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to clerk=Recipient |

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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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