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title: The king and the queen were out in the garden then, and the king sai… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king and the queen were out in the garden then, and the king said, ‘Now I can’t and I won’t wait any longer. Who acts: queen, king, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 95

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The king and the queen were out in the garden then, and the king said, ‘Now I can’t and I won’t wait any longer.

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**Who acts:** queen, king, I · **What happens:** be, say, not wait · **To what, where:** garden · **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 6. 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, I), 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:pg5615:6:95
# text = The king and the queen were out in the garden then, and the king said, ‘Now I can’t and I won’t wait any longer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	any	any	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the queen |  |  | the garden |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king and the garden |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **wait** | can · future | I |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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