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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 11

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Then the Queen in dismay cried that there must be some malignant influence at work, and that she would choose no more that day; and she had just risen to return to the palace when she heard peals of malicious laughter behind her, and turning round saw the ugly stranger whom she had dismissed, who was making very merry over the disasters and mocking everyone, but especially the Queen.

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**Who acts:** Queen, turning, ugly stranger, malicious laughter · **What happens:** cry, be, choose, rise, return, hear · **To what, where:** malignant influence, work, more, peals, ugly stranger, everyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Queen, turning, ugly stranger, malicious laughter), 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:pg540:3:11
# text = Then the Queen in dismay cried that there must be some malignant influence at work, and that she would choose no more that day; and she had just risen to return to the palace when she heard peals of malicious laughter behind her, and turning round saw the ugly stranger whom she had dismissed, who was making very merry over the disasters and mocking everyone, but especially the Queen.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	malignant	malignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	no	no	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
40	peals	peal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	malicious	malicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	csubj	_	_
49	round	round	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	57	obj	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	_
62	very	very	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	xcomp	_	_
64	over	over	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	61	conj	_	_
69	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	68	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
71	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
72	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
74	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Queen in dismay |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | some malignant influence |  | work |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | would | Queen | more |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | past · perfect | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 6 | **hear** | past | Queen | peals of malicious laughter behind nurse |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer peal=Stimulus |
| 7 | **turn round** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | past | turning | the ugly stranger |  |  |  | the Queen *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 9 | **dismiss** | past · perfect | Queen | the ugly stranger |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme |
| 10 | **make** | past · progressive | the ugly stranger |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **mock** | gerund | the ugly stranger *not said here* | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |
| 12 | **peal** |  | malicious laughter behind nurse |  |  |  |  |  | nom peal «event intransitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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