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title: “My name is Florentine, and my mother is a queen, and something more… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “My name is Florentine, and my mother is a queen, and something more than a queen, for she knows magic and spells, and because I would not do as she wished she turned me into a dove by day, but at night her spells lose their power and I become a man again. Who acts: name, mother, hush, spells. A sen
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 15

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“My name is Florentine, and my mother is a queen, and something more than a queen, for she knows magic and spells, and because I would not do as she wished she turned me into a dove by day, but at night her spells lose their power and I become a man again.

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**Who acts:** name, mother, hush, spells, My · **What happens:** be, know, spell, not do, wish, turn · **To what, where:** Florentine, queen, magic, hush, dove, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, mother, hush, spells), 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:pg7439:35:15
# text = “My name is Florentine, and my mother is a queen, and something more than a queen, for she knows magic and spells, and because I would not do as she wished she turned me into a dove by day, but at night her spells lose their power and I become a man again.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	appos	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	spells	spell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
51	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	xcomp	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My name | Florentine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my mother | a queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | hush | magic |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer magic=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spell** *in a quote* | present | hush *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | would | hush |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wish** *in a quote* | past | hush |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **turn** *in a quote* | past | hush | hush |  | a dove by day |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme into dove=Trajectory |
| 8 | **lose** *in a quote* | present | hush's spells | spells's power |  |  | night |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 9 | **become** *in a quote* | present | hush | a man |  |  | again |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **name** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **spell** *in a quote* |  | hush |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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