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title: And to make her more vain than ever the Queen caused her portrait to… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 7

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And to make her more vain than ever the Queen caused her portrait to be taken by the cleverest painters and sent it to several neighboring kings with whom she was very friendly.

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**Who acts:** Queen, cleverest painters · **What happens:** make, cause, take, send, neighbor, be · **To what, where:** daughter, portrait, several neighboring kings

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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 (Queen, cleverest painters), 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:pg503:5:7
# text = And to make her more vain than ever the Queen caused her portrait to be taken by the cleverest painters and sent it to several neighboring kings with whom she was very friendly.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	cleverest	clever	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | daughter |  |  |  | vain *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 2 | **cause** | past | the Queen | queen's portrait |  |  | ever |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition portrait=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | the cleverest painters |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | past | the cleverest painters *not said here* | portrait | several neighboring kings |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination |
| 5 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **portray** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «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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