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title: Not long after, the Queen had a fine son, which caused great feastin… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long after, the Queen had a fine son, which caused great feasting and rejoicing at the Court, insomuch that the late Queen, in a manner, was entirely forgotten. Who acts: Queen, fine son. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with its depende
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 12

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Not long after, the Queen had a fine son, which caused great feasting and rejoicing at the Court, insomuch that the late Queen, in a manner, was entirely forgotten.

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**Who acts:** Queen, fine son · **What happens:** have, cause, rejoice, forget · **To what, where:** fine son, great feasting, Court, late Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, fine son), 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:pg540:8:12
# text = Not long after, the Queen had a fine son, which caused great feasting and rejoicing at the Court, insomuch that the late Queen, in a manner, was entirely forgotten.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	insomuch	insomuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Queen | a fine son |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **cause** | past | a fine son | great feasting and insomuch |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition feasting=Patient |
| 3 | **rejoice** | gerund | a fine son *not said here* |  |  | the Court |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **forget** | past · passive |  | the late Queen |  |  |  | entirely *property* | 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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