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title: His Queen, Balanice, was also charming; indeed it is rare to find a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His Queen, Balanice, was also charming; indeed it is rare to find a husband and wife so perfectly of one mind about everything. Who acts: Queen, it. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 105

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His Queen, Balanice, was also charming; indeed it is rare to find a husband and wife so perfectly of one mind about everything.

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**Who acts:** Queen, it · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** charming, husband

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, it), 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:pg7277:8:105
# text = His Queen, Balanice, was also charming; indeed it is rare to find a husband and wife so perfectly of one mind about everything.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Balanice	Balanice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | model's Queen and Balanice | charming |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | indeed, rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | a husband and wife |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent husband=Theme mind=Attribute |

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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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