--- title: The queen, watching this transformation, could hardly believe her ey… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The queen, watching this transformation, could hardly believe her eyes, and would have taken it all for a dream, had it not been for the basket which she held in her hand. Who acts: queen, basket. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/30/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/) / 30 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 30 The queen, watching this transformation, could hardly believe her eyes, and would have taken it all for a dream, had it not been for the basket which she held in her hand. **Who acts:** queen, basket · **What happens:** watch, believe, take, have, not be, hold · **To what, where:** transformation, eyes, hand This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, basket), 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:pg641:12:30 # text = The queen, watching this transformation, could hardly believe her eyes, and would have taken it all for a dream, had it not been for the basket which she held in her hand. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 transformation transformation NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | gerund | the queen *not said here* | this transformation | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transformation=Theme | | 2 | **believe** | could | the queen | queen's eyes | | | | hardly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 3 | **take** | would · perfect | | transformation | | | | for a dream | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for dream=Beneficiary | | 4 | **have** | past | | transformation | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is** | participle | | | | | | for the basket | tree rules | | 6 | **hold** | past | the basket | | | queen's hand | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/31/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)