--- title: The Queen assured him of her eternal gratitude, and promised, should… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Queen assured him of her eternal gratitude, and promised, should he succeed, to give him her daughter in marriage, together with all the estates she herself owned. Who acts: Queen, King. 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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. **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:pg640:20:29 # text = The Queen assured him of her eternal gratitude, and promised, should he succeed, to give him her daughter in marriage, together with all the estates she herself owned. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 assured assure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eternal eternal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 estates estate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 conj _ _ 32 owned own VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **assure** | past | the Queen | | King | | | of Queen's eternal gratitude | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of gratitude=Topic | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **succeed** | should | King | | | | | with all estates; together *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | Queen's daughter | King | marriage | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme | | 5 | **own** | past | Queen | all estates *not said here* | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot estate=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/30/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)