--- title: The queen looked at her doubtfully, and answered: ‘You do not seem a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The queen looked at her doubtfully, and answered: ‘You do not seem as if you had been very lucky yourself, or to have much good fortune to spare for anyone else.’ Who acts: queen, You. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, 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/pg641/12/7/) [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/) / 7 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 7 The queen looked at her doubtfully, and answered: ‘You do not seem as if you had been very lucky yourself, or to have much good fortune to spare for anyone else.’ **Who acts:** queen, You · **What happens:** look, answer, not seem, be, have, spare · **To what, where:** good fortune · **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 (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:pg641:12:7 # text = The queen looked at her doubtfully, and answered: ‘You do not seem as if you had been very lucky yourself, or to have much good fortune to spare for anyone else.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 doubtfully doubtfully ADV RB _ 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 23 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 28 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obl _ _ 35 else else ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the queen | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at doubtfully=Theme | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **seem** | present · do-support | You | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | you | | | | | yourself *obl*; lucky *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | good fortune | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient | | 6 | **spare** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | good fortune *not said here* | | | | for anyone | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/8/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)