--- title: About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself in running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of the tower, where a g --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/21/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/) / 21 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 21 About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself in running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of the tower, where a good old woman, alone, was spinning with her spindle. **Who acts:** King, young Princess, Princess · **What happens:** be, happen, divert, run up, go up, come · **To what, where:** one, Princess, one apartment, little room This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, young Princess, Princess), 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:pg503:10:21 # text = About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself in running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of the tower, where a good old woman, alone, was spinning with her spindle. 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 after after ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 13 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 divert divert VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 in in SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 33 up up ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 down down ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 39 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 40 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 41 up up ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 apartment apartment NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 50 into into ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 54 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 61 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 65 advmod _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 63 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 64 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 67 alone alone ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 69 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 70 aux _ _ 70 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 advcl _ _ 71 with with ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 73 nmod:poss _ _ 73 spindle spindle NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | the King and Queen | | one of king's houses of pleasure | | year | go *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **happen** | past | the young Princess | | | | day | | tree rules | | 3 | **divert** | to-infinitive | the young Princess *not said here* | Princess | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | | 4 | **run up** | gerund | the young Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go up** | gerund | the King and Queen *not said here* | | | one apartment to another | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **come** | past | Princess | | | a little room on the top of the tower | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **spin** | past · progressive | Princess *not said here* | | | | | with Princess's spindle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/22/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)