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title: The King was rather pleased with this idea, and shut the Queen up in… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The King was rather pleased with this idea, and shut the Queen up in the highest room of a tall tower, which was very tiny, and miserably furnished with a table and a very hard bed upon the floor. Who acts: King, tall tower. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, w
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 28

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The King was rather pleased with this idea, and shut the Queen up in the highest room of a tall tower, which was very tiny, and miserably furnished with a table and a very hard bed upon the floor.

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**Who acts:** King, tall tower · **What happens:** be, shut up, furnish · **To what, where:** Queen, highest room

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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 (King, tall tower), 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:pg540:22:28
# text = The King was rather pleased with this idea, and shut the Queen up in the highest room of a tall tower, which was very tiny, and miserably furnished with a table and a very hard bed upon the floor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | with this idea; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut up** | past | the King *not said here* | the Queen |  | the highest room of a tall tower |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | a tall tower |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **furnish** | participle | a tall tower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a table upon the floor and a hard bed; miserably *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with table=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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