--- title: Bidding her ladies bring her the posy of jewelled flowers which had… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Bidding her ladies bring her the posy of jewelled flowers which had been given her at the palace, she took each flower in her hand and called it by name, and, in turn, each fairy appeared before her. Who acts: Bidding ladies, queen, turn. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/53/) [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/) / 53 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 53 Bidding her ladies bring her the posy of jewelled flowers which had been given her at the palace, she took each flower in her hand and called it by name, and, in turn, each fairy appeared before her. **Who acts:** Bidding ladies, queen, turn · **What happens:** bid, bring, jewell, give, take, call · **To what, where:** posy, queen, jewelled flowers, palace, flower, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Bidding ladies, queen, turn), 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:pg3027:22:53 # text = Bidding her ladies bring her the posy of jewelled flowers which had been given her at the palace, she took each flower in her hand and called it by name, and, in turn, each fairy appeared before her. 1 Bidding bid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 posy posy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 jewelled jewell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 41 before before ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bid** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | present | queen's Bidding ladies | the posy of jewelled flowers | queen | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination posy=Theme | | 3 | **jewell** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | | jewelled flowers | queen | the palace | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient she=Theme at palace=Asset | | 5 | **take** | past | queen | each flower | | queen's hand | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flower=Value in hand=Location | | 6 | **call** | past | queen *not said here* | flower | | | | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 7 | **appear** | past | turn and each fairy | | | | before queen | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)