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title: As to the Queen, she had once been very pretty, and she liked to bel… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the Queen, she had once been very pretty, and she liked to believe that she was so still, which is, of course, always made quite easy for queens. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 3

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As to the Queen, she had once been very pretty, and she liked to believe that she was so still, which is, of course, always made quite easy for queens.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** have, be, like, believe, make

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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), 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:pg7277:11:3
# text = As to the Queen, she had once been very pretty, and she liked to believe that she was so still, which is, of course, always made quite easy for queens.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
28	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | as the Queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **believe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for queens; easy *property* | tree rules |

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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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