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title: No one can tell how delighted the King was to get rid of that hideou… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No one can tell how delighted the King was to get rid of that hideous Bushy Bride, and get a Queen who was bright and beautiful as day itself. Who acts: one, King. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 95

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No one can tell how delighted the King was to get rid of that hideous Bushy Bride, and get a Queen who was bright and beautiful as day itself.

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**Who acts:** one, King · **What happens:** tell, be, get · **To what, where:** delighted, Queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, King), 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:pg540:47:95
# text = No one can tell how delighted the King was to get rid of that hideous Bushy Bride, and get a Queen who was bright and beautiful as day itself.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | no one | delighted |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent delighted=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | the King |  |  |  |  | get, rid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | no one *not said here* | a Queen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | day | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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