--- title: When the Flower Queen heard that her daughter wanted to marry the Pr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the Flower Queen heard that her daughter wanted to marry the Prince, she said to him: ‘I will give my consent to your marriage gladly, but my daughter can only stay with you in summer. Who acts: Flower Queen, daughter, Queen, I. 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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 (Flower Queen, daughter, Queen, I), 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:pg640:34:85 # text = When the Flower Queen heard that her daughter wanted to marry the Prince, she said to him: ‘I will give my consent to your marriage gladly, but my daughter can only stay with you in summer. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Flower Flower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the Flower Queen | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **want** | past | Queen's daughter | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Queen's daughter *not said here* | the Prince | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queen | | Prince | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** | future | I | my consent | your marriage | | | gladly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent consent=Theme to marriage=Recipient | | 6 | **stay** | can | my daughter | | | | summer | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | | 7 | **consent** | | my | | | | | | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **marry** | | your | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/86/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/34/)