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title: When the Queen heard this terrible news she was heart-broken, and be… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Queen heard this terrible news she was heart-broken, and begged the Fairy to do all she could to get the poor little Princess back again. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 101

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When the Queen heard this terrible news she was heart-broken, and begged the Fairy to do all she could to get the poor little Princess back again.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** hear, break, beg, do, get · **To what, where:** terrible news, Queen, Fairy, all, poor little Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:22:101
# text = When the Queen heard this terrible news she was heart-broken, and begged the Fairy to do all she could to get the poor little Princess back again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Queen | this terrible news |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | past · passive |  | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  | the Fairy |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | the poor little Princess |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=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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