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title: When the audience hall was quite full, the Fairy said to the subject… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the audience hall was quite full, the Fairy said to the subjects of the Wicked King that if they would accept Delicia, who was the daughter of the Jolly King, as their Queen, she would undertake to find a suitable husband for her, and would promise that during their reign there should be nothin
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 190

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When the audience hall was quite full, the Fairy said to the subjects of the Wicked King that if they would accept Delicia, who was the daughter of the Jolly King, as their Queen, she would undertake to find a suitable husband for her, and would promise that during their reign there should be nothing but rejoicing and merry-making, and all dismal things should be entirely banished.

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**Who acts:** audience hall, Fairy, ladies, Delicia · **What happens:** be, say, accept, undertake, find, promise · **To what, where:** Delicia, daughter, suitable husband, that, nothing, dismal things · **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 (audience hall, Fairy, ladies, Delicia), 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:pg540:22:190
# text = When the audience hall was quite full, the Fairy said to the subjects of the Wicked King that if they would accept Delicia, who was the daughter of the Jolly King, as their Queen, she would undertake to find a suitable husband for her, and would promise that during their reign there should be nothing but rejoicing and merry-making, and all dismal things should be entirely banished.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
24	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Jolly	Jolly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
53	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	obj	_	_
54	during	during	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
57	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	59	expl	_	_
58	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	cop	_	_
60	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	52	parataxis	_	_
61	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	60	conj	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
64	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
69	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	71	det	_	_
70	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	75	nsubj:pass	_	_
72	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	75	aux	_	_
73	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	75	aux:pass	_	_
74	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
75	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the audience hall |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | to the subjects of the Wicked King | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to subject=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **accept** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | ladies *= lady* | Delicia |  |  |  | as ladies's Queen | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent delicia=Theme as queen=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Delicia | the daughter |  |  |  | of the Jolly King | tree rules |
| 5 | **undertake** | would | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | fairy *not said here* | a suitable husband |  |  |  | for Delicia | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | would | fairy *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 8 | **is a** | infinitive |  | nothing |  |  | during ladies's reign |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **rejoice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 11 | **banish** | should · passive |  | all dismal things |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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