--- title: When the Queen saw her returning she fell upon the Fairy, whom she h… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the Queen saw her returning she fell upon the Fairy, whom she had kept with her, and pulled her hair, and scratched her face, and would really have killed her if a Fairy could be killed. Who acts: Queen, Princess. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Princess), 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:pg540:25:44 # text = When the Queen saw her returning she fell upon the Fairy, whom she had kept with her, and pulled her hair, and scratched her face, and would really have killed her if a Fairy could be killed. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 returning return VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 really really ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux _ _ 34 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the Queen | Princess | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **return** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | past | Queen | | | | | upon the Fairy | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon fairy=Location | | 4 | **keep** | past · perfect | Queen | the Fairy | | | | with Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 5 | **pull** | past | | Queen's hair | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | | 6 | **scratch** | past | the Queen *not said here* | Queen's face | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | | 7 | **kill** | would · perfect | the Queen *not said here* | Queen | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 8 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · passive | | a Fairy | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/45/) - ↑ back to [Graciosa and Percinet, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/25/)