--- title: At last, when they were quite weary, the princess cried out suddenly… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last, when they were quite weary, the princess cried out suddenly that nothing would content her but to bathe in the marble pool, which certainly did look very inviting; and they all went gaily to this new amusement. Who acts: companions, princess, nothing, marble pool. A sentence of «The Brown F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/17/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/) / 17 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 17 At last, when they were quite weary, the princess cried out suddenly that nothing would content her but to bathe in the marble pool, which certainly did look very inviting; and they all went gaily to this new amusement. **Who acts:** companions, princess, nothing, marble pool · **What happens:** be, cry out, content, bathe, look, invite · **To what, where:** last, princess, new amusement This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, princess, nothing, marble pool), 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:pg3282:31:17 # text = At last, when they were quite weary, the princess cried out suddenly that nothing would content her but to bathe in the marble pool, which certainly did look very inviting; and they all went gaily to this new amusement. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 quite quite ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 content content VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 bathe bathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 29 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 parataxis _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 inviting invite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 advmod _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 39 gaily gaily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 42 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 amusement amusement NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | companions *= companion* | | | last | | weary *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the princess | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **content** | would | nothing | princess | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 4 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | | | | | in the marble pool | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pool=Theme | | 5 | **look** | past · do-support | the marble pool | | | | | certainly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **invite** | gerund | the marble pool *not said here* | | | | | | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **go** | past | companions *= companion* | | | this new amusement | | gaily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to amusement=Initial\_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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/18/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/)