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title: In the midst of all his glory, his queen died, leaving behind her an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the midst of all his glory, his queen died, leaving behind her an only daughter, about fifteen years of age, who for her beauty and kindness was the wonder of all that knew her. Who acts: queen, fifteen years, king. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 2

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In the midst of all his glory, his queen died, leaving behind her an only daughter, about fifteen years of age, who for her beauty and kindness was the wonder of all that knew her.

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**Who acts:** queen, fifteen years, king · **What happens:** die, leave, be, know, glory · **To what, where:** queen

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, fifteen years, king), 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:pg7439:49:2
# text = In the midst of all his glory, his queen died, leaving behind her an only daughter, about fifteen years of age, who for her beauty and kindness was the wonder of all that knew her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
38	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | king's queen |  |  |  | year | in the midst of king's glory | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in midst=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | king's queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind queen's only daughter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind daughter=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | fifteen years of age and the wonder |  |  |  |  | for the wonder | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | past |  | queen |  |  |  | of the wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **glory** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: 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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