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title: Then the Queen sent for Turritella, and they talked it over, and ver… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Queen sent for Turritella, and they talked it over, and very soon came to the conclusion than this Blue Bird was no other than King Charming himself. Who acts: Queen, voices, Blue Bird. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 11

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Then the Queen sent for Turritella, and they talked it over, and very soon came to the conclusion than this Blue Bird was no other than King Charming himself.

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**Who acts:** Queen, voices, Blue Bird · **What happens:** send, talk over, come, be · **To what, where:** word, conclusion

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, voices, Blue Bird), 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:pg7277:4:11
# text = Then the Queen sent for Turritella, and they talked it over, and very soon came to the conclusion than this Blue Bird was no other than King Charming himself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Queen |  |  |  | then | for Turritella | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk over** | past | voices *= voice* | word |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Queen *not said here* |  |  | the conclusion |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | this Blue Bird |  |  |  |  | than Charming  King  Charming; other *property* | 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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