--- title: It happened that she fell ill, and when she felt that she must soon… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It happened that she fell ill, and when she felt that she must soon die, she sent for the King, and said, ‘If you want to marry after my death, make no one queen unless she is just as beautiful as I am, and has just such golden hair as I have. Who acts: It, wife, you, I. 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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 (It, wife, you, I), 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:pg7277:42:2 # text = It happened that she fell ill, and when she felt that she must soon die, she sent for the King, and said, ‘If you want to marry after my death, make no one queen unless she is just as beautiful as I am, and has just such golden hair as I have. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 If if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 37 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 39 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 just just ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 as as ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 advcl _ _ 47 as as SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 53 just just ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 54 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 57 as as SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 58 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | It | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | past | wife | | | | | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | past | wife | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **die** | must | wife | | | | | soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **send** | past | wife | | | | | for the King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | wife *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | after my death | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **make** | present | | no one queen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset queen=Product | | 10 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | wife | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **have** | present | | such golden hair | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 12 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 13 | **die** | | my | | | | | | nom death «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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/3/) - ↑ back to [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/)