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description: He flew into a terrible rage when he heard what had happened, and determined to lay siege to the Flower Queen’s palace; but the Queen caused a forest of flowers as high as the sky to grow up round her dwelling, through which no one could force a way. Who acts: Prince, Queen, one. A sentence of «The 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 84

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He flew into a terrible rage when he heard what had happened, and determined to lay siege to the Flower Queen’s palace; but the Queen caused a forest of flowers as high as the sky to grow up round her dwelling, through which no one could force a way.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Queen, one · **What happens:** fly, hear, happen, lay, cause, grow up · **To what, where:** terrible rage, siege, forest, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Queen, one), 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:pg640:34:84
# text = He flew into a terrible rage when he heard what had happened, and determined to lay siege to the Flower Queen’s palace; but the Queen caused a forest of flowers as high as the sky to grow up round her dwelling, through which no one could force a way.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	round	round	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	through	through	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
48	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | into a terrible rage *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | siege |  |  |  | to the Flower Queen's palace | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Result |
| 5 | **cause** | past | the Queen | a forest of flowers |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition forest=Patient |
| 6 | **grow up** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Queen's dwelling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **force** | could | no one | a way |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |

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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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