--- title: At that the new queen flushed up and cried out: “At least your court… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At that the new queen flushed up and cried out: “At least your courtesy might have excepted me,” and then she muttered below her breath: “I'll soon put an end to her beauty.” Who acts: queen. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/) / 10 # English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 10 At that the new queen flushed up and cried out: “At least your courtesy might have excepted me,” and then she muttered below her breath: “I'll soon put an end to her beauty.” **Who acts:** queen · **What happens:** flush up, cry out, accept, mutter, put · **To what, where:** new queen, courtesy, breath, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:39:10 # text = At that the new queen flushed up and cried out: “At least your courtesy might have excepted me,” and then she muttered below her breath: “I'll soon put an end to her beauty.” 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 flushed flush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 At at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 nmod _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 courtesy courtesy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ _ 19 excepted accept VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 muttered mutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 below below ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flush up** | participle | | the new queen *not said here* | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **accept** *in a quote* | might · perfect · passive | | your courtesy at least | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | queen | | | queen's breath | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | future | queen | a end | | | | to queen's beauty; soon *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/11/) - ↑ back to [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/)