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title: The Queen, a little comforted by these words, received her graciousl… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen, a little comforted by these words, received her graciously, and begged her to take pity upon the poor little Princess, who had met with such a sudden reverse of fortune. Who acts: Queen, poor little Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, with i
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 33

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The Queen, a little comforted by these words, received her graciously, and begged her to take pity upon the poor little Princess, who had met with such a sudden reverse of fortune.

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**Who acts:** Queen, poor little Princess · **What happens:** comfort, receive, beg, take, meet · **To what, where:** little, horse, Queen, pity

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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, poor little Princess), 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:pg540:22:33
# text = The Queen, a little comforted by these words, received her graciously, and begged her to take pity upon the poor little Princess, who had met with such a sudden reverse of fortune.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	34	det:predet	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	reverse	reverse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | participle | the Queen *not said here* | a little |  |  |  | by this words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the Queen | horse |  |  |  | graciously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the Queen *not said here* |  | Queen |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | pity |  |  |  | upon the poor little Princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** | past · perfect | the poor little Princess |  |  |  |  | with such sudden reverse of fortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reverse=Co-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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