--- title: It was carried straight up into the great hall of the tower, and the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was carried straight up into the great hall of the tower, and the princess stepped into it, followed by her faithful maid of honour, Eglantine, and by her lady in waiting Cerisette, who also had fallen in love with the prince's portrait and was bitterly jealous of her mistress. Who acts: princess --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/24/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/) / 24 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 24 It was carried straight up into the great hall of the tower, and the princess stepped into it, followed by her faithful maid of honour, Eglantine, and by her lady in waiting Cerisette, who also had fallen in love with the prince's portrait and was bitterly jealous of her mistress. **Who acts:** princess, lady, Cerisette, prince · **What happens:** carry, step, follow, wait, fall, be · **To what, where:** carriage, great hall, Cerisette, love This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, lady, Cerisette, prince), 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:pg3027:23:24 # text = It was carried straight up into the great hall of the tower, and the princess stepped into it, followed by her faithful maid of honour, Eglantine, and by her lady in waiting Cerisette, who also had fallen in love with the prince's portrait and was bitterly jealous of her mistress. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Eglantine Eglantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 35 in in SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 37 Cerisette Cerisette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 40 also also ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 acl:relcl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 48 's 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 51 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 52 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past · passive | | carriage | | the great hall of the tower | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **step** | past | the princess | | | carriage | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | | 3 | **follow** | participle | the princess *not said here* | | | | | by princess's faithful maid of honour | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by maid=Location | | 4 | **wait** | gerund | princess's lady *not said here* | Cerisette | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | past · perfect | Cerisette | | | love | | with the prince's portrait | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | Cerisette *not said here* | | | | | of princess's mistress; bitterly, jealous *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **portray** | | the prince | | | | | | nom portrait «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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/)