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title: So she told him that the King had come home again, and that the Quee… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she told him that the King had come home again, and that the Queen had pretended to be ill, and that she had made the doctor say that she could never be well again unless some of the flesh of the Blue Bull was given her to eat, and that now he was to be killed. Who acts: daughter, King, Queen, do
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 26

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So she told him that the King had come home again, and that the Queen had pretended to be ill, and that she had made the doctor say that she could never be well again unless some of the flesh of the Blue Bull was given her to eat, and that now he was to be killed.

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**Who acts:** daughter, King, Queen, doctor · **What happens:** tell, come, pretend, be, make, say · **To what, where:** bull, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, King, Queen, doctor), 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:pg540:29:26
# text = So she told him that the King had come home again, and that the Queen had pretended to be ill, and that she had made the doctor say that she could never be well again unless some of the flesh of the Blue Bull was given her to eat, and that now he was to be killed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
38	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
55	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	60	advcl	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux:pass	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
59	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	aux:pass	_	_
60	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | daughter |  | bull |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | the King |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pretend** | past · perfect | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | again, well *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · passive |  | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |
| 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **kill** | past · passive |  | bull |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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