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title: ‘Ah! cruel Queen! what have I ever done to be imprisoned like this? — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah! cruel Queen! what have I ever done to be imprisoned like this? Who acts: cruel Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 47

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‘Ah! cruel Queen! what have I ever done to be imprisoned like this?

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**Who acts:** cruel Queen · **What happens:** do, imprison

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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 (cruel 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:pg7277:3:47
# text = ‘Ah! cruel Queen! what have I ever done to be imprisoned like this?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | cruel Queen |  |  |  | ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **imprison** | to-infinitive · passive | cruel Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like this | vn confine-92 «NP V NP» |

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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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