--- title: They went into the great hall of looking-glasses, where they supped,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They went into the great hall of looking-glasses, where they supped, and were served by the Princess’s officers, the violins and hautboys played old tunes, but very excellent, though it was now above a hundred years since they had played; and after supper, without losing any time, the lord almoner m --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/71/) [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/) / 71 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 71 They went into the great hall of looking-glasses, where they supped, and were served by the Princess’s officers, the violins and hautboys played old tunes, but very excellent, though it was now above a hundred years since they had played; and after supper, without losing any time, the lord almoner married them in the chapel of the castle, and the chief lady of honor drew the curtains. **Who acts:** ladies, glasses, officers, highness, lord almoner, chief lady · **What happens:** go, look, sup, serve, play, be · **To what, where:** great hall, old tunes, hundred years, ladies, chapel, curtains 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 (ladies, glasses, officers, highness), 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:pg503:10:71 # text = They went into the great hall of looking-glasses, where they supped, and were served by the Princess’s officers, the violins and hautboys played old tunes, but very excellent, though it was now above a hundred years since they had played; and after supper, without losing any time, the lord almoner married them in the chapel of the castle, and the chief lady of honor drew the curtains. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 supped sup VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’s 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 violins violin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 hautboys hautboy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 29 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 tunes tune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 though though SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 40 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 41 above above ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 parataxis _ _ 45 since since SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ; ; PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 51 after after ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 without without SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 55 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 52 appos _ _ 56 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 57 det _ _ 57 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ _ 61 almoner almoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj _ _ 62 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 63 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 obj _ _ 64 in in ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 66 chapel chapel NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 67 of of ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 77 punct _ _ 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 77 cc _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 73 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 74 amod _ _ 74 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 nsubj _ _ 75 of of ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 76 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 nmod _ _ 77 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 78 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 79 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 77 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 80 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | ladies *= lady* | | | the great hall | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **look** | gerund | glasses *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **sup** | past | ladies *= lady* | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **serve** | past · passive | the Princess's officers and the violins and hautboys | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **play** | past | glasses | old tunes | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | highness | | | | above hundred years; now | | tree rules | | 7 | **play** | past · perfect | ladies *= lady* | hundred years *not said here* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent year=Theme | | 8 | **lose** | gerund | | | | | time | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **marry** | past | the lord almoner | ladies *= lady* | | the chapel of the castle | after supper | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 10 | **draw** | past | the chief lady of honor | the curtains | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/72/) - ↑ back to [The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/10/)