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title: The Queen, greatly incensed at such a daring insult from one of her… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen, greatly incensed at such a daring insult from one of her meanest subjects, demanded immediately the reason, or she would have her put to death. Who acts: Queen, meanest subjects, conference. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with i
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 15

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The Queen, greatly incensed at such a daring insult from one of her meanest subjects, demanded immediately the reason, or she would have her put to death.

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**Who acts:** Queen, meanest subjects, conference · **What happens:** incense, demand, have, put · **To what, where:** daring insult, reason, conference

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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, meanest subjects, conference), 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:pg540:8:15
# text = The Queen, greatly incensed at such a daring insult from one of her meanest subjects, demanded immediately the reason, or she would have her put to death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	incensed	incense	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	daring	daring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	meanest	mean	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	demanded	demand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incense** | participle | the Queen |  |  | such daring insult |  | from one of Queen's meanest subjects; greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | participle | Queen's meanest subjects *not said here* | the reason |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | would | Queen | conference |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | participle | conference *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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