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title: The next day the Queen sent King Charming splendid presents of jewel… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day the Queen sent King Charming splendid presents of jewels and rich stuffs, and among other things an ornament made expressly in honour of the approaching wedding. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 54

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The next day the Queen sent King Charming splendid presents of jewels and rich stuffs, and among other things an ornament made expressly in honour of the approaching wedding.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** send, make, approach, honour · **To what, where:** splendid presents, Charming, ornament, honour, approaching wedding

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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), 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:pg7277:2:54
# text = The next day the Queen sent King Charming splendid presents of jewels and rich stuffs, and among other things an ornament made expressly in honour of the approaching wedding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	expressly	expressly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | splendid presents of jewels and rich stuffs | Charming  King |  | day | among other things | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent charming=Destination present=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a ornament *not said here* |  | honour of the approaching wedding |  | expressly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **honour** |  |  | the approaching wedding |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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