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title: Now the queen his mother was taking her walk abroad when she saw the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the queen his mother was taking her walk abroad when she saw the pretty dove flying overhead and alighting on the castle walls. Who acts: queen, mother, pretty dove. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 30

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Now the queen his mother was taking her walk abroad when she saw the pretty dove flying overhead and alighting on the castle walls.

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**Who acts:** queen, mother, pretty dove · **What happens:** take, walk, see, fly, alight · **To what, where:** pretty dove, castle walls

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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 (queen, mother, pretty dove), 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:pg7439:35:30
# text = Now the queen his mother was taking her walk abroad when she saw the pretty dove flying overhead and alighting on the castle walls.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	alighting	alight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · progressive | the queen |  |  |  | now |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | mother | the pretty dove |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | the pretty dove *not said here* |  |  |  |  | overhead *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **alight** | gerund | the pretty dove *not said here* |  |  | the castle walls |  |  | 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:** «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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