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title: As she was an only child, of course this little girl was the heiress… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she was an only child, of course this little girl was the heiress of the kingdom, but, being still only a baby, her mother, the widow of Diamantino, was proclaimed regent. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, with its dependency tree an
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 9

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As she was an only child, of course this little girl was the heiress of the kingdom, but, being still only a baby, her mother, the widow of Diamantino, was proclaimed regent.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, proclaim · **To what, where:** only child, heiress, baby

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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:pg640:11:9
# text = As she was an only child, of course this little girl was the heiress of the kingdom, but, being still only a baby, her mother, the widow of Diamantino, was proclaimed regent.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heiress	heiress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
38	regent	regent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | wife | a only child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the heiress |  |  |  | of this little girl; of the kingdom | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund |  | a baby and wife's mother and the widow of Diamantino |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past · passive |  | a baby and wife's mother and the widow of Diamantino |  |  |  | regent *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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