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title: The Queen was inconsolable when she saw this great nose, but her lad… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen was inconsolable when she saw this great nose, but her ladies assured her that it was not really as large as it looked; that it was a Roman nose, and you had only to open any history to see that every hero has a large nose. Who acts: Queen, ladies, nose, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 20

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The Queen was inconsolable when she saw this great nose, but her ladies assured her that it was not really as large as it looked; that it was a Roman nose, and you had only to open any history to see that every hero has a large nose.

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**Who acts:** Queen, ladies, nose, you, hero · **What happens:** be, see, assure, not be, look, have · **To what, where:** great nose, Queen, Roman nose, history, large nose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, ladies, nose, you), 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:pg503:3:20
# text = The Queen was inconsolable when she saw this great nose, but her ladies assured her that it was not really as large as it looked; that it was a Roman nose, and you had only to open any history to see that every hero has a large nose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
41	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  |  | inconsolable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Queen | this great nose |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Stimulus |
| 3 | **assure** | past | Queen's ladies |  | Queen |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | nose |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | past | nose |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | past | nose | a Roman nose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **open** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | any history |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location history=Theme |
| 9 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **have** | present | every hero | a large nose |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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