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title: The Queen, my mother, whom he loved dearly, had a passion for travel… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen, my mother, whom he loved dearly, had a passion for traveling and exploring, and when I was only a few weeks old she obtained his permission to visit a certain mountain of which she had heard many marvelous tales, and set out, taking with her a number of her attendants. Who acts: company, 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 60

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The Queen, my mother, whom he loved dearly, had a passion for traveling and exploring, and when I was only a few weeks old she obtained his permission to visit a certain mountain of which she had heard many marvelous tales, and set out, taking with her a number of her attendants.

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**Who acts:** company, Queen, I · **What happens:** love, have, be, obtain, visit, hear · **To what, where:** passion, permission, certain mountain, many marvelous tales, number

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, Queen, I), 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:pg503:24:60
# text = The Queen, my mother, whom he loved dearly, had a passion for traveling and exploring, and when I was only a few weeks old she obtained his permission to visit a certain mountain of which she had heard many marvelous tales, and set out, taking with her a number of her attendants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	dearly	dearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	traveling	traveling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	exploring	exploring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | company |  |  |  |  | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Queen | a passion |  |  |  | for traveling and exploring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | week | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **obtain** | past | Queen | company's permission |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme |
| 5 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | a certain mountain |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **hear** | past · perfect | Queen | many marvelous tales |  |  |  | of a certain mountain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
| 7 | **set out** | infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **take** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | a number of Queen's attendants |  |  |  | with Queen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 9 | **permit** |  | company |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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