--- title: Well, that evening, when the young man had supped off his favourite… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Well, that evening, when the young man had supped off his favourite dishes which the princess took care to have specially prepared for him, she sat down close beside him, and began stroking his head. Who acts: young man, princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/67/) [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/) / 67 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 67 Well, that evening, when the young man had supped off his favourite dishes which the princess took care to have specially prepared for him, she sat down close beside him, and began stroking his head. **Who acts:** young man, princess · **What happens:** sup, take, have, prepare, sit down, begin · **To what, where:** favourite dishes, head 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 (young man, princess), 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:pg3027:14:67 # text = Well, that evening, when the young man had supped off his favourite dishes which the princess took care to have specially prepared for him, she sat down close beside him, and began stroking his head. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 supped sup VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 12 off off ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 23 specially specially ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 30 down down ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 32 beside beside ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 stroking stroke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sup** | past · perfect | the young man | | | | | off man's favourite dishes | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | past | the princess | man's favourite dishes | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme care=Destination | | 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | | | | | specially *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **prepare** | participle | the princess *not said here* | | | | | for man | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary | | 5 | **sit down** | past | princess | | | | | beside man; close, down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | | 6 | **begin** | past | princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **stroke** | gerund | princess *not said here* | man's head | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/)