--- title: The Queen received her guest with great ceremony, and presented him… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Queen received her guest with great ceremony, and presented him to her daughter, who was gorgeously attired, but so much splendour only made her ugliness more noticeable, and the King, after one glance at her, looked the other way. Who acts: Queen, much splendour, King. 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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, much splendour, King), 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:pg7277:2:25 # text = The Queen received her guest with great ceremony, and presented him to her daughter, who was gorgeously attired, but so much splendour only made her ugliness more noticeable, and the King, after one glance at her, looked the other way. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 gorgeously gorgeously ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 attired attire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 splendour splendour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ugliness ugliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 31 noticeable noticeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 after after ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 glance glance NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 43 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past | the Queen | Queen's guest | | | | with great ceremony | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | | 2 | **present** | past | | guest | Queen's daughter | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to daughter=Recipient | | 3 | **attire** | past · passive | | Queen's daughter | | | | gorgeously *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | much splendour | Queen's ugliness | | | | noticeable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ugliness=Product | | 5 | **look** | past | the King | the other way | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/26/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/)