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title: At first the Queen did not know him, because he had grown so thin an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 84

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At first the Queen did not know him, because he had grown so thin and pale from having travelled so long and so sorrowfully; but when she saw her ring she was heartily glad, and then the rightful wedding was held, and held in such a way that it was talked about far and wide.

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**Who acts:** Queen, King, way · **What happens:** not know, grow, have, travell, see, be · **To what, where:** King, ring, rightful wedding, way, wedding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, King, way), 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:pg540:26:84
# text = At first the Queen did not know him, because he had grown so thin and pale from having travelled so long and so sorrowfully; but when she saw her ring she was heartily glad, and then the rightful wedding was held, and held in such a way that it was talked about far and wide.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	heartily	heartily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	rightful	rightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	51	det:predet	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl:relcl	_	_
56	about	about	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | the Queen | King |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | past · perfect | King |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **travell** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | Queen | Queen's ring |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the rightful wedding |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  | such way |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 9 | **talk about** | past · passive | such way *not said here* | wedding |  |  |  | far *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient |

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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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