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title: The queen had had two beautiful princes; but the king had sent order… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen had had two beautiful princes; but the king had sent orders that all these were to be burned. Who acts: queen, king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 3

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The queen had had two beautiful princes; but the king had sent orders that all these were to be burned.

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**Who acts:** queen, king · **What happens:** have, send, burn · **To what, where:** two beautiful princes, orders, these

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:3315`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:34:3
# text = The queen had had two beautiful princes; but the king had sent orders that all these were to be burned.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | the queen | two beautiful princes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
| 2 | **send** | past · perfect | the king | orders |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | past · passive | the king *not said here* | these |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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