--- title: The Wicked Queen knowing this made every attempt to get the Prince o… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Wicked Queen knowing this made every attempt to get the Prince out of the country, but her efforts failed, till one day accident did what she was unable to accomplish. Who acts: Wicked Queen, this, day accident. 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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 (Wicked Queen, this, day accident), 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:pg640:22:79 # text = The Wicked Queen knowing this made every attempt to get the Prince out of the country, but her efforts failed, till one day accident did what she was unable to accomplish. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 4 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 efforts effort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 till till SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 nsubj _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 accomplish accomplish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | gerund | the Wicked Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **make** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **attempt** | | this | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | the Wicked Queen *not said here* | the Prince | | the country | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | | 5 | **fail** | past | the Wicked Queen | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | past | day accident | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | | | | | | unable *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/80/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)