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title: The queen, who did not imagine that any person could be so deceitful… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen, who did not imagine that any person could be so deceitful, bade her stepmother welcome, and kept her beside her. Who acts: queen, person. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 51

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The queen, who did not imagine that any person could be so deceitful, bade her stepmother welcome, and kept her beside her.

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**Who acts:** queen, person · **What happens:** not imagine, be, keep, welcome · **To what, where:** queen

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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 (queen, person), 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:pg5615:33:51
# text = The queen, who did not imagine that any person could be so deceitful, bade her stepmother welcome, and kept her beside her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **imagine** | past · do-support | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | could | any person |  |  |  |  | deceitful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | past | any person *not said here* | queen |  |  |  | beside queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme beside she=Location |
| 4 | **welcome** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=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 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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