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title: The talk even reached the Court, and the Queen, who was very curious… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The talk even reached the Court, and the Queen, who was very curious, had a great desire to see the wonderful Prince. Who acts: talk, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 151

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The talk even reached the Court, and the Queen, who was very curious, had a great desire to see the wonderful Prince.

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**Who acts:** talk, Queen · **What happens:** reach, be, have, see · **To what, where:** Court, great desire, wonderful Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talk, 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:pg7277:22:151
# text = The talk even reached the Court, and the Queen, who was very curious, had a great desire to see the wonderful Prince.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the talk | the Court |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Queen | a great desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | the wonderful Prince |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |

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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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