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title: The unhappy Queen, seeing all at once what a miserable life her daug… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The unhappy Queen, seeing all at once what a miserable life her daughter would have with this Dwarf could not bear the idea, and fell down insensible without saying a word. Who acts: miserable life, unhappy Queen. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, with its
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 60

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The unhappy Queen, seeing all at once what a miserable life her daughter would have with this Dwarf could not bear the idea, and fell down insensible without saying a word.

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**Who acts:** miserable life, unhappy Queen · **What happens:** see, have, not bear, fall down, say · **To what, where:** idea, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miserable life, unhappy Queen), 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:pg503:5:60
# text = The unhappy Queen, seeing all at once what a miserable life her daughter would have with this Dwarf could not bear the idea, and fell down insensible without saying a word.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	insensible	insensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | would | a miserable life |  |  |  |  | with this Dwarf | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **bear** | could | the unhappy Queen | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 4 | **fall down** | past | the unhappy Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | insensible *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the unhappy Queen *not said here* | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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