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title: And he sent the splendid gifts back to the Queen and Turritella, who… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he sent the splendid gifts back to the Queen and Turritella, who were furiously angry at the contempt with which they were treated. Who acts: King, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 64

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And he sent the splendid gifts back to the Queen and Turritella, who were furiously angry at the contempt with which they were treated.

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**Who acts:** King, Queen · **What happens:** send, be, treat · **To what, where:** splendid gifts, Queen, contempt, gifts

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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 (King, 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:pg7277:2:64
# text = And he sent the splendid gifts back to the Queen and Turritella, who were furiously angry at the contempt with which they were treated.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | King | the splendid gifts | the Queen and Turritella |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to queen=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Queen and Turritella |  |  | the contempt |  | angry, furiously *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **treat** | past · passive |  | gifts *= gift* |  |  |  | with the contempt | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with which=Theme |

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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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