---
title: At this the girl took a cup in which some poisonous herbs had been c… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this the girl took a cup in which some poisonous herbs had been crushed, and holding it in her hands, she wailed: 'O my father, Rover of the Plain!' Who acts: girl, wife. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/) / 16

# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At this the girl took a cup in which some poisonous herbs had been crushed, and holding it in her hands, she wailed: 'O my father, Rover of the Plain!'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** girl, wife · **What happens:** take, crush, hold, wail · **To what, where:** cup, poisonous herbs, hands

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3027:22:16
# text = At this the girl took a cup in which some poisonous herbs had been crushed, and holding it in her hands, she wailed: 'O my father, Rover of the Plain!'
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	herbs	herb	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	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wailed	wail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Rover	Rover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | this girl | a cup |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme |
| 2 | **crush** | past · perfect · passive |  | some poisonous herbs |  | a cup |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | wife *not said here* | cup |  | wife's hands |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location |
| 4 | **wail** | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/15/)
- next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/17/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)