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title: The Queen and the Princess were just ready to set out with the King… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen and the Princess were just ready to set out with the King when they saw, advancing toward them from the end of the long gallery, two great basilisks, dragging after them a very badly made box; behind them came a tall old woman, whose ugliness was even more surprising than her extreme old a
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 28

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The Queen and the Princess were just ready to set out with the King when they saw, advancing toward them from the end of the long gallery, two great basilisks, dragging after them a very badly made box; behind them came a tall old woman, whose ugliness was even more surprising than her extreme old age.

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**Who acts:** Queen, bags, ugliness · **What happens:** be, set out, see, advance, drag, make · **To what, where:** end, made box

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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, bags, ugliness), 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:pg503:6:28
# text = The Queen and the Princess were just ready to set out with the King when they saw, advancing toward them from the end of the long gallery, two great basilisks, dragging after them a very badly made box; behind them came a tall old woman, whose ugliness was even more surprising than her extreme old age.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
20	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	basilisks	basilisk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
54	even	even	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	56	advmod	_	_
56	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	_
57	than	than	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
59	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
60	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Queen and the Princess |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set out** | to-infinitive | the Queen and the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | bags *= bag* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **advance** | gerund | bags *= bag* *not said here* |  |  |  | from the end of the long gallery and two great basilisks | toward bags *= bag* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme toward they=Initial\_Location from end=Destination |
| 5 | **drag** | gerund | bags *= bag* *not said here* | a made box |  |  | after bags *= bag* |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **come** | past | bags *= bag* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | ugliness |  |  |  | than Princess's extreme old age | surprising *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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