---
title: “So when the Queen had another little daughter she was quite frighte… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “So when the Queen had another little daughter she was quite frightened, and agreed with her sister (who was a fairy) to exchange her for the fairy’s little son. Who acts: Queen, little daughter, sister. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its depen
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/65/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/) / 65

# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 65

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“So when the Queen had another little daughter she was quite frightened, and agreed with her sister (who was a fairy) to exchange her for the fairy’s little son.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Queen, little daughter, sister · **What happens:** have, frighten, agree, be, exchange · **To what, where:** little daughter, Queen, fairy

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, little daughter, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg503:22:65
# text = “So when the Queen had another little daughter she was quite frightened, and agreed with her sister (who was a fairy) to exchange her for the fairy’s little son.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the Queen | another little daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **frighten** *in a quote* | past · passive | another little daughter *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | past | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Queen's sister | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S\_INF»: agent=Agent with sister=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Queen's sister | a fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **exchange** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  | for the fairy's little son | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme for son=Co-Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/64/)
- next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/66/)
- ↑ back to [Felicia and the Pot of Pinks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/22/)