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title: For many nights the Queen came in the same way, but she never spoke… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For many nights the Queen came in the same way, but she never spoke a word, and the nurse was too frightened to say anything about her visits. Who acts: Queen, nurse. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 102

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For many nights the Queen came in the same way, but she never spoke a word, and the nurse was too frightened to say anything about her visits.

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**Who acts:** Queen, nurse · **What happens:** come, not speak, be, say, visit · **To what, where:** same way, word, nurse, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, nurse), 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:pg540:10:102
# text = For many nights the Queen came in the same way, but she never spoke a word, and the nurse was too frightened to say anything about her visits.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	csubj	_	_
27	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Queen |  |  | the same way | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past | Queen | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past · passive |  | the nurse |  |  |  | frightened *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | anything |  |  |  | about nurse's visits | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 5 | **visit** |  | nurse |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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