--- title: And when the mother came again to tell him that his orders had been… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when the mother came again to tell him that his orders had been fulfilled he received her with great honour, and bade her tell her son that the wedding was fixed for the following day. Who acts: mother, man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/40/) [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/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/) / 40 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 40 And when the mother came again to tell him that his orders had been fulfilled he received her with great honour, and bade her tell her son that the wedding was fixed for the following day. **Who acts:** mother, man · **What happens:** come, tell, fulfil, receive, bade, fix · **To what, where:** man, orders, mother, son, wedding · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, man), 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:pg3027:14:40 # text = And when the mother came again to tell him that his orders had been fulfilled he received her with great honour, and bade her tell her son that the wedding was fixed for the following day. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 fulfilled fulfil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 iobj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the mother | | | | again | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the mother *not said here* | | man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **fulfil** | past · perfect · passive | | man's orders | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **receive** | past | man | mother | | | | with great honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **bade** | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | mother | | mother's son | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | | 7 | **fix** | past · passive | | the wedding | | | day | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **order** | | man | | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/)