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title: So when the Queen sent for the courtiers and questioned them about a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So when the Queen sent for the courtiers and questioned them about all they had found out, their report confirmed her worst fears. Who acts: Queen, courtiers, report. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 51

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So when the Queen sent for the courtiers and questioned them about all they had found out, their report confirmed her worst fears.

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**Who acts:** Queen, courtiers, report · **What happens:** send, question, find out, confirm, report, fear · **To what, where:** courtiers, worst fears

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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, courtiers, report), 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:pg7277:2:51
# text = So when the Queen sent for the courtiers and questioned them about all they had found out, their report confirmed her worst fears.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	questioned	question	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | for the courtiers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **question** *speech: other* | past | the Queen *not said here* | courtiers *= courtier* |  |  |  | about all | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about all=Topic |
| 3 | **find out** | past · perfect | courtiers *= courtier* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **confirm** | past | courtiers's report | Queen's worst fears |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fear=Topic |
| 5 | **report** |  | courtiers *= courtier* |  |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **fear** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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