--- title: Now the Queen, after she thought she had eaten Snowdrop’s lungs and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the Queen, after she thought she had eaten Snowdrop’s lungs and liver, never dreamed but that she was once more the most beautiful woman in the world; so stepping before her mirror one day she said: Who acts: Queen, SNOWDROP. 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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, SNOWDROP), 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:pg540:47:178 # text = Now the Queen, after she thought she had eaten Snowdrop’s lungs and liver, never dreamed but that she was once more the most beautiful woman in the world; so stepping before her mirror one day she said: 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 11 Snowdrop Snowdrop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 dreamed dream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 23 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 advmod _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 stepping step VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 ccomp _ _ 35 before before ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 42 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Queen | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent queen=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | Queen | Snowdrop's lungs and liver | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lung=Patient | | 3 | **not** **dream** | participle | Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | SNOWDROP | the beautiful woman | | the world | | | tree rules | | 5 | **step** | gerund | | | | SNOWDROP's mirror | day | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before mirror=Trajectory | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | SNOWDROP | | | | now | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/177/) - next →: [sentence 179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/179/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)