--- title: Then the beautiful maidens offered to the prince sparkling wine; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the beautiful maidens offered to the prince sparkling wine; and when he had drank, he felt happiness greater than he had ever known before. Who acts: beautiful maidens, prince, heaven. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/222/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/) / 222 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 222 Then the beautiful maidens offered to the prince sparkling wine; and when he had drank, he felt happiness greater than he had ever known before. **Who acts:** beautiful maidens, prince, heaven · **What happens:** offer, sparkle, drink, feel, know · **To what, where:** prince, wine, happiness, heaven This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful maidens, prince, heaven), 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:pg27200:140:222 # text = Then the beautiful maidens offered to the prince sparkling wine; and when he had drank, he felt happiness greater than he had ever known before. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 drank drink VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 26 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 27 before before ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **offer** | past | the beautiful maidens | | the prince | | then | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to prince=Goal | | 2 | **sparkle** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | wine | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wine=Theme | | 3 | **drink** | past · perfect | heaven | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feel** | past | heaven | happiness | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme | | 5 | **know** | past · perfect · passive | | heaven | | | ever | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/221/) - next →: [sentence 223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/223/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)