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title: ‘Charming Queen, may this be some slight consolation to you in your… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Charming Queen, may this be some slight consolation to you in your unhappiness!’ Who acts: Charming. 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 116

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‘Charming Queen, may this be some slight consolation to you in your unhappiness!’

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**Who acts:** Charming · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** slight consolation, you, unhappiness

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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 (Charming), 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:pg7277:8:116
# text = ‘Charming Queen, may this be some slight consolation to you in your unhappiness!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	unhappiness	unhappiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | may | Charming | some slight consolation | you | your unhappiness |  |  | 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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