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title: But the Queen resolved to hide somewhere a packet of false letters t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Queen resolved to hide somewhere a packet of false letters to prove that the Princess had been conspiring with the King’s enemies, and she chose the chimney as a good place. Who acts: Queen, Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its depend
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 111

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But the Queen resolved to hide somewhere a packet of false letters to prove that the Princess had been conspiring with the King’s enemies, and she chose the chimney as a good place.

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**Who acts:** Queen, Princess · **What happens:** resolve, hide, prove, conspire, choose · **To what, where:** packet, chimney

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Princess), 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:pg7277:3:111
# text = But the Queen resolved to hide somewhere a packet of false letters to prove that the Princess had been conspiring with the King’s enemies, and she chose the chimney as a good place.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	packet	packet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	conspiring	conspire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | a packet of false letters |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Patient |
| 3 | **prove** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **conspire** | past · perfect · progressive | the Princess |  |  |  |  | with the King's enemies | vn conspire-71 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enemy=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **choose** | past | Queen | the chimney |  |  |  | as a good place | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=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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