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title: I said secretly, because the Fairy had warned the Queen that the Kin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I said secretly, because the Fairy had warned the Queen that the King was a magician; and as from time immemorial there had been a standing feud between the Fairies and the Wizards, he might not have approved of his wife’s visit. Who acts: I, King, Fairies, wife. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 89

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I said secretly, because the Fairy had warned the Queen that the King was a magician; and as from time immemorial there had been a standing feud between the Fairies and the Wizards, he might not have approved of his wife’s visit.

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**Who acts:** I, King, Fairies, wife · **What happens:** say, warn, be, stand, not approve, visit · **To what, where:** Fairy, Queen, magician, standing feud, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King, Fairies, 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:pg640:19:89
# text = I said secretly, because the Fairy had warned the Queen that the King was a magician; and as from time immemorial there had been a standing feud between the Fairies and the Wizards, he might not have approved of his wife’s visit.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	immemorial	immemorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	conj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	feud	feud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
30	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux	_	_
41	approved	approve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Fairy | the Queen |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the King | a magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past · perfect |  | a standing feud |  |  |  | between the Fairies and the Wizards | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **approve** | might · perfect · passive | the Fairies and the Wizards *not said here* | King |  |  |  | of Fairy's wife's visit | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **visit** |  | Fairy's wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act 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 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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