--- title: He took up one set of crowns, and gave it to the eldest princess; an… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He took up one set of crowns, and gave it to the eldest princess; and another set, and gave it to the second youngest princess; and another, and gave it to the youngest of all; and says he, ‘Now you may all go to the bottom of the pit, and you have nothing to do but stir the basket, and the people t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/11/31/) [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 Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/11/) / 31 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 31 He took up one set of crowns, and gave it to the eldest princess; and another set, and gave it to the second youngest princess; and another, and gave it to the youngest of all; and says he, ‘Now you may all go to the bottom of the pit, and you have nothing to do but stir the basket, and the people that are watching above will draw you up. **Who acts:** joy, you, people · **What happens:** take up, give, say, go, have, do · **To what, where:** one set, breakfast, eldest princess, second youngest princess, youngest, joy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, you, people), 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:pg3454:11:31 # text = He took up one set of crowns, and gave it to the eldest princess; and another set, and gave it to the second youngest princess; and another, and gave it to the youngest of all; and says he, ‘Now you may all go to the bottom of the pit, and you have nothing to do but stir the basket, and the people that are watching above will draw you up. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 amod _ _ 27 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 iobj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 46 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 51 advmod _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 49 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 50 all all ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 ccomp _ _ 52 to to ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 61 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 advcl _ _ 62 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 61 obj _ _ 63 to to PART TO _ 64 mark _ _ 64 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 acl _ _ 65 but but CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 66 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 conj _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 , , PUNCT , _ 78 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 78 cc _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 78 nsubj _ _ 73 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 75 nsubj _ _ 74 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 75 aux _ _ 75 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 72 acl:relcl _ _ 76 above above ADP IN _ 75 obl _ _ 77 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 78 aux _ _ 78 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 conj _ _ 79 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 78 obj _ _ 80 up up ADP RP _ 78 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 81 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take up** | past | joy | one set of crowns | | | | another set *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past | joy *not said here* | breakfast | the eldest princess | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to princess=Recipient | | 3 | **give** | past | | breakfast | the second youngest princess | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to princess=Recipient | | 4 | **give** | past | | breakfast | the youngest | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient it=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | joy | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | may | you | | | the bottom of the pit | now | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **have** | present | you | nothing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **stir** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the basket | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus basket=Experiencer | | 10 | **watch** | present · progressive | the people | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **draw up** | future | the people | you | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/11/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/11/32/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/11/)