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title: While King Lindorm was away at the war the wicked woman came to the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While King Lindorm was away at the war the wicked woman came to the queen, and spoke fair to her, saying that she had always foreseen that her stepdaughter was destined to be something great in the world, and that she had on this account secured that she should be the enchanted prince’s bride. Who a
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 50

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While King Lindorm was away at the war the wicked woman came to the queen, and spoke fair to her, saying that she had always foreseen that her stepdaughter was destined to be something great in the world, and that she had on this account secured that she should be the enchanted prince’s bride.

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**Who acts:** King, wicked woman, queen · **What happens:** be, come, speak, say, destine, have · **To what, where:** war, stepdaughter, something, account, bride · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wicked woman, queen), 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:pg5615:33:50
# text = While King Lindorm was away at the war the wicked woman came to the queen, and spoke fair to her, saying that she had always foreseen that her stepdaughter was destined to be something great in the world, and that she had on this account secured that she should be the enchanted prince’s bride.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Lindorm	Lindorm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	foreseen	foreseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	secured	secure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
52	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’s	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | King |  |  | the war |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the wicked woman |  |  |  |  | to the queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the wicked woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the wicked woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **destine** | past · passive |  | queen's stepdaughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | queen |  |  | this account |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **secure** | past | the wicked woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **is a** | should | queen | the enchanted prince's bride |  |  |  |  | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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