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title: Then the Queen sent for the Fairy once more, and scolded her until s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Queen sent for the Fairy once more, and scolded her until she was fairly terrified, and promised to go home and think of another task for Graciosa, worse than either of the others. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, with its de
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 13

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Then the Queen sent for the Fairy once more, and scolded her until she was fairly terrified, and promised to go home and think of another task for Graciosa, worse than either of the others.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** send, scold, be, promise, go, think · **To what, where:** Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. 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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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg540:2024`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:25:13
# text = Then the Queen sent for the Fairy once more, and scolded her until she was fairly terrified, and promised to go home and think of another task for Graciosa, worse than either of the others.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Queen |  |  |  | then | for the Fairy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scold** | past | the Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | fairly, terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of another task for Graciosa | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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