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title: The Queen was overjoyed at the success of her stratagem, end promise… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen was overjoyed at the success of her stratagem, end promised herself that all would now be as she wished; and sure enough, as soon as it was dark the following night the King came, bringing with him a chariot which had been given him by an Enchanter who was his friend. Who acts: end, strata
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 83

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The Queen was overjoyed at the success of her stratagem, end promised herself that all would now be as she wished; and sure enough, as soon as it was dark the following night the King came, bringing with him a chariot which had been given him by an Enchanter who was his friend.

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**Who acts:** end, stratagem, dark, Enchanter · **What happens:** overjoy, promise, be, follow, come, bring · **To what, where:** Queen, success, chariot, King, friend

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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 (end, stratagem, dark, Enchanter), 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:pg7277:2:83
# text = The Queen was overjoyed at the success of her stratagem, end promised herself that all would now be as she wished; and sure enough, as soon as it was dark the following night the King came, bringing with him a chariot which had been given him by an Enchanter who was his friend.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nsubj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl:relcl	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | the Queen |  | the success of Queen's stratagem |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | end | Queen |  |  |  | all *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | end |  |  |  | now | wish *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | stratagem |  |  |  | night | dark, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | past | dark |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **bring** | gerund | dark *not said here* | a chariot |  |  |  | with King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme |
| 8 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | a Enchanter | a chariot | King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | past | a Enchanter | King's friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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