--- title: They declared the secret of Fairy-than-a-Fairy’s royal birth, and th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They declared the secret of Fairy-than-a-Fairy’s royal birth, and the Queen taking the two lovers in her carriage set off with them for the capital of the kingdom. Who acts: sisters, Queen, carriage. 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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 (sisters, Queen, carriage), 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:pg640:24:38 # text = They declared the secret of Fairy-than-a-Fairy’s royal birth, and the Queen taking the two lovers in her carriage set off with them for the capital of the kingdom. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 lovers lover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 in in SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | sisters *= sister* | the secret of Fairy | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Attribute | | 2 | **take** | gerund | the Queen | the two lovers | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Theme | | 3 | **set off** | past | Fairy's carriage | | | | | with sisters *= sister*; for the capital of the kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/39/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)