--- title: She had no sooner taken it into her hand than, whether being very ha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She had no sooner taken it into her hand than, whether being very hasty at it, somewhat unhandy, or that the decree of the Fairy had so ordained it, it ran into her hand, and she fell down in a swoon. Who acts: Princess, misfortune, Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Slee --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/27/) [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/) / 27 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 27 She had no sooner taken it into her hand than, whether being very hasty at it, somewhat unhandy, or that the decree of the Fairy had so ordained it, it ran into her hand, and she fell down in a swoon. **Who acts:** Princess, misfortune, Fairy · **What happens:** have, take, be, ordain, run, fall down · **To what, where:** misfortune, hand, decree, swoon 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 (Princess, misfortune, Fairy), 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:pg503:10:27 # text = She had no sooner taken it into her hand than, whether being very hasty at it, somewhat unhandy, or that the decree of the Fairy had so ordained it, it ran into her hand, and she fell down in a swoon. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 hasty hasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 unhandy unhandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 decree decree NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 ordained ordain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 43 down down ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 swoon swoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Princess | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | participle | Princess *not said here* | misfortune | | Princess's hand | | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into hand=Destination | | 3 | **is** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | | | misfortune | | hasty *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Princess *not said here* | | | | | somewhat *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ordain** | past · perfect · passive | | the decree of the Fairy | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme it=Attribute | | 6 | **run** | past | misfortune | | | | | into Princess's hand *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hand=Result | | 7 | **fall down** | past | Princess | | | a swoon | | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swoon=Location | | 8 | **decree** | | the Fairy | | | | | | nom decree «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/28/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)