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title: The Queen’s decision was that the King should make a big grave-mound… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen’s decision was that the King should make a big grave-mound for her brother, and put Hadvor into it beside him. Who acts: King, Queen. 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 51

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The Queen’s decision was that the King should make a big grave-mound for her brother, and put Hadvor into it beside him.

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**Who acts:** King, Queen · **What happens:** be, put, decide · **To what, where:** Hadvor, mound

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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 (King, Queen), 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:pg640:49:51
# text = The Queen’s decision was that the King should make a big grave-mound for her brother, and put Hadvor into it beside him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should · past | the King |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | Hadvor |  | mound |  | beside brother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hadvor=Theme beside he=Destination |
| 3 | **decide** |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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