--- title: But the Queen was so vain that she thought all their admiring glance… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the Queen was so vain that she thought all their admiring glances were for herself, especially as, in spite of the badness of their cause, the King’s knights were so brave that they were the victors in every combat. Who acts: Queen, admiring glances, knights, combatants. A sentence of «The Red F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/) / 2 # The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 2 But the Queen was so vain that she thought all their admiring glances were for herself, especially as, in spite of the badness of their cause, the King’s knights were so brave that they were the victors in every combat. **Who acts:** Queen, admiring glances, knights, combatants · **What happens:** be, think, glance, spite, cause · **To what, where:** victors, combat, badness · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, admiring glances, knights, combatants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:24:2 # text = But the Queen was so vain that she thought all their admiring glances were for herself, especially as, in spite of the badness of their cause, the King’s knights were so brave that they were the victors in every combat. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 13 det:predet _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 admiring admiring NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 glances glance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 especially especially ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 badness badness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 victors victor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 advcl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 44 det _ _ 44 combat combat NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Queen | | | | | vain *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Queen | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | combatants's admiring glances | | | | | for Queen | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the King's knights | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | knights *= knight* | the victors | | every combat | | | tree rules | | 6 | **glance** | | combatants *= combatant* | | | | | | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **spite** | | | the badness of combatants's cause | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **cause** | | combatants *= combatant* | | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/3/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/24/)