--- title: Before the sun was fairly up in the heavens the princess, too full o… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Before the sun was fairly up in the heavens the princess, too full of excitement to stay in the palace, was walking about the streets so covered with precious stones that you had to shade your eyes before you could look at her. Who acts: you, precious stones. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/53/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/) / 53 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 53 Before the sun was fairly up in the heavens the princess, too full of excitement to stay in the palace, was walking about the streets so covered with precious stones that you had to shade your eyes before you could look at her. **Who acts:** you, precious stones · **What happens:** stay, walk, cover, have, shade, look · **To what, where:** palace, precious stones, eyes This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, precious stones), 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:pg3027:37:53 # text = Before the sun was fairly up in the heavens the princess, too full of excitement to stay in the palace, was walking about the streets so covered with precious stones that you had to shade your eyes before you could look at her. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 up up ADP RB _ 11 case _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 25 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 shade shade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 before before SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | the palace | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | | 2 | **walk** | past · progressive | | | | | | up the princess; about the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up princess=Trajectory | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | you | precious stones | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shade** | to-infinitive | precious stones *not said here* | your eyes | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary | | 6 | **look** | could | you | | | | | at princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | 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/pg3027/37/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/54/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/)