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title: Indeed, when the Queen saw how ill-tempered and ugly she appeared be… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, when the Queen saw how ill-tempered and ugly she appeared beside Fiordelisa she was in despair, and did everything in her power to turn the King against his own daughter, in the hope that he might take a fancy to Turritella. Who acts: Queen, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 15

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Indeed, when the Queen saw how ill-tempered and ugly she appeared beside Fiordelisa she was in despair, and did everything in her power to turn the King against his own daughter, in the hope that he might take a fancy to Turritella.

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**Who acts:** Queen, King · **What happens:** see, temper, appear, be, turn, take · **To what, where:** Fiordelisa, despair, King, hope, fancy, Turritella · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. 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), 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:pg7277:2:15
# text = Indeed, when the Queen saw how ill-tempered and ugly she appeared beside Fiordelisa she was in despair, and did everything in her power to turn the King against his own daughter, in the hope that he might take a fancy to Turritella.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **temper** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **appear** | past | Queen |  |  | Fiordelisa |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside fiordelisa=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  | despair |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | past · do-support |  | the King |  | the hope |  | against King's own daughter | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme against daughter=Source in hope=Trajectory |
| 6 | **take** | might | King | a fancy | Turritella |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to turritella=Destination |

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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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