--- title: What a torment her stout old attendants and servants sometime though… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: What a torment her stout old attendants and servants sometime thought her when she insisted on staying awake, and making them chatter or do something, when they could hardly keep their eyes open! Who acts: garden, attendants. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/136/) [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/) / [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/) / 136 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 136 What a torment her stout old attendants and servants sometime thought her when she insisted on staying awake, and making them chatter or do something, when they could hardly keep their eyes open! **Who acts:** garden, attendants · **What happens:** think, insist, stay, make, chatter, do · **To what, where:** torment, attendants, something, eyes This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, attendants), 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:pg3282:33:136 # text = What a torment her stout old attendants and servants sometime thought her when she insisted on staying awake, and making them chatter or do something, when they could hardly keep their eyes open! 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det:predet _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 torment torment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 stout stout ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 sometime sometime ADV RB PronType=Ind 11 advmod _ _ 11 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 insisted insist VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 on on SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 chatter chatter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | what torment garden's stout old attendants and servants | | | | sometime *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | | 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | garden | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | gerund | garden *not said here* | | | | | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | gerund | garden *not said here* | attendants *= attendant* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **chatter** | infinitive | attendants *= attendant* *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | infinitive | attendants *= attendant* *not said here* | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 7 | **keep** | could | attendants *= attendant* | attendants's eyes | | | | hardly, open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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 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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/137/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)