--- title: The Queen told everyone, with much pretended sorrow, that the Prince… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Queen told everyone, with much pretended sorrow, that the Princess was so ugly, and so troublesome, and altogether so impossible to love, that to keep her out of sight was the only thing that could be done for her. Who acts: Queen, Princess, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Princess, that), 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:pg7277:11:11 # text = The Queen told everyone, with much pretended sorrow, that the Princess was so ugly, and so troublesome, and altogether so impossible to love, that to keep her out of sight was the only thing that could be done for her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 pretended pretend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 troublesome troublesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 out out ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 obj _ _ 41 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen | | everyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | | 2 | **pretend** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | the Princess | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **love** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | that | Queen | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | past | | the only thing | | sight | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | could · passive | | the only thing | | | | for Queen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/12/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)