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title: ‘Oh! if that’s all,’ said the King, and he sent to all the shoe-make… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh! if that’s all,’ said the King, and he sent to all the shoe-makers in his kingdom, and they very soon made the Queen ten thousand green satin slippers, but still she looked sad. Who acts: King, he, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dependency tr
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# The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 17

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‘Oh! if that’s all,’ said the King, and he sent to all the shoe-makers in his kingdom, and they very soon made the Queen ten thousand green satin slippers, but still she looked sad.

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**Who acts:** King, he, Queen · **What happens:** say, send, make, look · **To what, where:** kingdom, thousand green satin slippers, Queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, he, 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:pg540:11:17
# text = ‘Oh! if that’s all,’ said the King, and he sent to all the shoe-makers in his kingdom, and they very soon made the Queen ten thousand green satin slippers, but still she looked sad.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	compound	_	_
35	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
36	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
44	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | past | he |  |  | his kingdom |  | to all shoe makers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to maker=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | King | thousand green satin slippers | the Queen |  |  | soon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset queen=Beneficiary slipper=Product |
| 4 | **look** | past | Queen |  |  |  | still | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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