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title: As time went on the Queen fell sick, and suspecting that it was her… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As time went on the Queen fell sick, and suspecting that it was her last illness, sent for the King to come to her. Who acts: Queen, troth. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 5

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As time went on the Queen fell sick, and suspecting that it was her last illness, sent for the King to come to her.

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**Who acts:** Queen, troth · **What happens:** go, fall, suspect, be, send, come · **To what, where:** last illness, Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, troth), 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:pg640:49:5
# text = As time went on the Queen fell sick, and suspecting that it was her last illness, sent for the King to come to her.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	suspecting	suspect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suspect** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | troth | Queen's last illness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **send** | participle |  | Queen's last illness *not said here* |  |  |  | for the King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive |  |  | Queen |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |

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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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