--- title: With this he left her, and the princess, without an instant’s delay,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With this he left her, and the princess, without an instant’s delay, opened the basket, and touching a turnip, cried eagerly: “Brunhilda, my dear Brunhilda! come to me quickly!” Who acts: man, Brunhilda. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Brunhilda), 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:pg3282:31:44 # text = With this he left her, and the princess, without an instant’s delay, opened the basket, and touching a turnip, cried eagerly: “Brunhilda, my dear Brunhilda! come to me quickly!” 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 turnip turnip NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 eagerly eagerly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Brunhilda Brunhilda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Brunhilda Brunhilda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 36 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | man | | maiden | | | with this; the princess and a instant's delay *obl* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with this=Theme | | 2 | **open** | past | man *not said here* | the basket | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location basket=Theme | | 3 | **touch** | gerund | man *not said here* | a turnip | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme turnip=Co-Theme | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | eagerly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brunhilda and my dear Brunhilda | | me | | | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/45/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/)