--- title: As the girl took it in her hands it suddenly spoke, as it had been t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As the girl took it in her hands it suddenly spoke, as it had been taught to do, and uttered a compliment of the most delicate and charming sort, which made the princess flush with pleasure. Who acts: girl, much, delicate sort. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/95/) [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/) / 95 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 95 As the girl took it in her hands it suddenly spoke, as it had been taught to do, and uttered a compliment of the most delicate and charming sort, which made the princess flush with pleasure. **Who acts:** girl, much, delicate sort · **What happens:** take, speak, teach, do, utter, make · **To what, where:** much, hands, compliment, princess flush, delicate sort · **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 (girl, much, delicate sort), 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:pg3027:22:95 # text = As the girl took it in her hands it suddenly spoke, as it had been taught to do, and uttered a compliment of the most delicate and charming sort, which made the princess flush with pleasure. 1 As as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 compliment compliment NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 27 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 28 advmod _ _ 28 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 charming charming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 princess princess ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 flush flush NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the girl | much | | princess's hands | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | much | princess's hands *not said here* | | | | suddenly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | much | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | much *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the girl *not said here* | a compliment of the delicate sort | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent compliment=Topic | | 6 | **make** | past | the delicate sort | the princess flush | | | | with pleasure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flush=Product | | 7 | **compliment** | | | the delicate sort | | | | | nom compliment «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/94/) - next →: [Opening, part 23, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)