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title: The Queen had offered her hand to all the neighbouring Princes, but… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen had offered her hand to all the neighbouring Princes, but they always answered that they would marry Fiordelisa with pleasure, but not Turritella on any account. Who acts: Queen, Princes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 86

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The Queen had offered her hand to all the neighbouring Princes, but they always answered that they would marry Fiordelisa with pleasure, but not Turritella on any account.

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**Who acts:** Queen, Princes · **What happens:** offer, neighbour, answer, marry · **To what, where:** hand, neighbouring Princes, account, Fiordelisa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Princes), 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:pg7277:3:86
# text = The Queen had offered her hand to all the neighbouring Princes, but they always answered that they would marry Fiordelisa with pleasure, but not Turritella on any account.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
21	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · perfect | the Queen | Queen's hand | all neighbouring Princes | any account |  | Turritella *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to prince=Goal |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | would | Princes *= prince* | Fiordelisa |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiordelisa=Patient |

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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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