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title: The Queen was so overjoyed that she had hardly been able to sleep at… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen was so overjoyed that she had hardly been able to sleep at all, and she got up before it was light to give the necessary orders and to choose the jewels that the Princess was to wear. Who acts: Queen, it, Princess. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 23

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The Queen was so overjoyed that she had hardly been able to sleep at all, and she got up before it was light to give the necessary orders and to choose the jewels that the Princess was to wear.

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**Who acts:** Queen, it, Princess · **What happens:** overjoy, be, sleep, get up, give, choose · **To what, where:** Queen, all, necessary orders, jewels

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Queen, it, Princess), 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:pg503:6:23
# text = The Queen was so overjoyed that she had hardly been able to sleep at all, and she got up before it was light to give the necessary orders and to choose the jewels that the Princess was to wear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Queen |  |  |  |  | able, hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get up** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | the necessary orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 7 | **choose** | to-infinitive |  | the jewels |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | the Princess | the jewels *not said here* |  |  |  | wear *property* | tree rules |

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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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