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title: The Queen was delighted with him, so were all her ladies; and the Ki… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen was delighted with him, so were all her ladies; and the King was very polite to him, though he did not quite see why the whole court was making such a fuss over him. Who acts: Queen, King, Prince, whole court. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Pr
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 22

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The Queen was delighted with him, so were all her ladies; and the King was very polite to him, though he did not quite see why the whole court was making such a fuss over him.

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**Who acts:** Queen, King, Prince, whole court · **What happens:** be, not see, make · **To what, where:** ladies, Prince, fuss

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, King, Prince, whole court), 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:pg7277:11:22
# text = The Queen was delighted with him, so were all her ladies; and the King was very polite to him, though he did not quite see why the whole court was making such a fuss over him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
35	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fuss	fuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | with Prince; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Queen's ladies |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the King |  | Prince |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **make** | past · progressive | the whole court | such fuss |  |  |  | over Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product |

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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 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.

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