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title: For the Queen had disguised herself, and pulled her hair down about… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For the Queen had disguised herself, and pulled her hair down about her eyes, that no one might know her. Who acts: one. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 94

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For the Queen had disguised herself, and pulled her hair down about her eyes, that no one might know her.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** disguise, pull down, know · **To what, where:** Queen, hair

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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 (one), 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:pg7277:4:94
# text = For the Queen had disguised herself, and pulled her hair down about her eyes, that no one might know her.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | past · perfect |  | Queen |  |  |  | for the Queen | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herself=Destination |
| 2 | **pull down** | past |  | Queen's hair |  |  |  | about Queen's eyes; down *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | might | no one | hair |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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