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title: The sea-queen Otohime, whom you read of in the story of Uraschimator… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea-queen Otohime, whom you read of in the story of Uraschimatoro, grew suddenly very ill. Who acts: you, sea queen. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 3

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The sea-queen Otohime, whom you read of in the story of Uraschimatoro, grew suddenly very ill.

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**Who acts:** you, sea queen · **What happens:** read, grow · **To what, where:** story

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sea 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:pg641:32:3
# text = The sea-queen Otohime, whom you read of in the story of Uraschimatoro, grew suddenly very ill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	Otohime	Otohime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Uraschimatoro	Uraschimatoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | you |  |  | the story of Uraschimatoro |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the sea queen |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 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.

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