--- title: In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of all, and gav… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of all, and gave her a plum, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait mortal could be in, and that would get her out of it. Who acts: daughters, long, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, long, that), 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:pg14241:16:109 # text = In the morning they took her into a room, the finest of all, and gave her a plum, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait mortal could be in, and that would get her out of it. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 advcl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 plum plum NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 till till SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 31 in in SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 34 strait strait NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 mortal mortal NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 38 in in ADV RB _ 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 out out ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | daughters *= daughter* | long | | a room | morning | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Destination | | 2 | **give** | past | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | a plum | long | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient plum=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | | long | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **break** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | plum | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 5 | **is** | could · past | long | | | | | in *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **get** | would | that | long | | mortal | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/110/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)