--- title: But the old Queen laughed, and said to her son: ‘Don’t worry, my chi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the old Queen laughed, and said to her son: ‘Don’t worry, my child; you see, the Fairy has protected you so far, and the Sun has found no one to kill you. Who acts: old Queen, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Death of the Sun-hero (27)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/) / 37 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 37 But the old Queen laughed, and said to her son: ‘Don’t worry, my child; you see, the Fairy has protected you so far, and the Sun has found no one to kill you. **Who acts:** old Queen, you · **What happens:** laugh, say, not worry, see, protect, find · **To what, where:** son, child, Fairy, Sun, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Queen, you), 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:pg640:38:37 # text = But the old Queen laughed, and said to her son: ‘Don’t worry, my child; you see, the Fairy has protected you so far, and the Sun has found no one to kill you. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 worry worry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | the old Queen | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old Queen *not said here* | | Queen's son | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **worry** | infinitive · do-support | | my child | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **protect** | present · perfect · passive | | the Fairy | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | the Sun | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **kill** | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/38/) - ↑ back to [The Death of the Sun-hero (27)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/38/)