--- title: ‘When my daughter,’ said the queen, ‘is ten years old, you are to ha… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘When my daughter,’ said the queen, ‘is ten years old, you are to hand it over to her, but warn her solemnly that her whole future happiness depends on the way she guards it. Who acts: daughter, ‘, you, whole future happiness. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/55/) [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/) / 55 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 55 ‘When my daughter,’ said the queen, ‘is ten years old, you are to hand it over to her, but warn her solemnly that her whole future happiness depends on the way she guards it. **Who acts:** daughter, ‘, you, whole future happiness, queen · **What happens:** say, be, warn, depend, guard · **To what, where:** queen, ‘ · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (daughter, ‘, you, whole future happiness), 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:pg641:12:55 # text = ‘When my daughter,’ said the queen, ‘is ten years old, you are to hand it over to her, but warn her solemnly that her whole future happiness depends on the way she guards it. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 hand hand VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 over over ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 solemnly solemnly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 32 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my daughter | the queen | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | ‘ | the queen *not said here* | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | you | | queen | | | hand *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | queen | | | solemnly *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 5 | **depend** | present | queen's whole future happiness | | | | | on the way | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on way=Theme | | 6 | **guard** | present | queen | ‘ | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/56/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)