--- title: As for the Queen and Turritella, they were triumphant; but their tri… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As for the Queen and Turritella, they were triumphant; but their triumph was short, for the King, Fiordelisa’s father, fell ill and died, and all the people rebelled against the Queen and Turritella, and came in a body to the palace demanding Fiordelisa. Who acts: things, triumph, father, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, triumph, father, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:4:44 # text = As for the Queen and Turritella, they were triumphant; but their triumph was short, for the King, Fiordelisa’s father, fell ill and died, and all the people rebelled against the Queen and Turritella, and came in a body to the palace demanding Fiordelisa. 1 As as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Turritella Turritella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 triumphant triumphant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 triumph triumph NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 Fiordelisa Fiordelisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 27 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 rebelled rebel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 against against ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 Turritella Turritella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 50 demanding demand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 51 Fiordelisa Fiordelisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | things *= thing* | | | | | as the Queen and Turritella; triumphant *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | things's triumph | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | past | Fiordelisa's father | | | | | for the King; ill *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for king=Theme | | 4 | **die** | past | Fiordelisa's father *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **rebel** | past | all people | | | | | against the Queen and Turritella | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against queen=Maleficiary | | 6 | **come** | past | Fiordelisa's father *not said here* | | | a body | | to the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | Fiordelisa's father *not said here* | Fiordelisa | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fiordelisa=Precondition | | 8 | **triumph** | | things *= thing* | | | | | | nom triumph «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/45/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/)