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title: He therefore went to the queen, and told her everything, at the same… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He therefore went to the queen, and told her everything, at the same time showing her the king’s letter containing the command to burn her and the princes. Who acts: king, letter. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 65

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He therefore went to the queen, and told her everything, at the same time showing her the king’s letter containing the command to burn her and the princes.

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**Who acts:** king, letter · **What happens:** go, tell, show, contain, burn, letter · **To what, where:** everything, letter, queen, command · **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, letter), 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:pg5615:33:65
# text = He therefore went to the queen, and told her everything, at the same time showing her the king’s letter containing the command to burn her and the princes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | king |  |  |  |  | to the queen; therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | king *not said here* | the king's letter | queen |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient letter=Topic |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | the king's letter *not said here* | the command |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot command=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | queen |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 6 | **letter** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication 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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