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title: The queen of the fairies, wishing to see the little fellow, came in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen of the fairies, wishing to see the little fellow, came in at the window while the mother was sitting up in the bed admiring him. Who acts: queen, mother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 9

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The queen of the fairies, wishing to see the little fellow, came in at the window while the mother was sitting up in the bed admiring him.

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**Who acts:** queen, mother · **What happens:** wish, see, come in, sit up, admire · **To what, where:** little fellow, window, bed, Merlin

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, mother), 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:pg7439:28:9
# text = The queen of the fairies, wishing to see the little fellow, came in at the window while the mother was sitting up in the bed admiring him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | gerund | the queen of the fairies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the queen of the fairies *not said here* | the little fellow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come in** | past | the queen of the fairies |  |  | the window |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location |
| 4 | **sit up** | past · progressive | the mother |  |  | the bed |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 5 | **admire** | gerund | the mother *not said here* | Merlin |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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