--- title: Before drinking the magician made her a speech in praise of her beau… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Before drinking the magician made her a speech in praise of her beauty, but the Princess cut him short, saying: “Let us drink first, and you shall say what you will afterward.” Who acts: Princess, us, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, us, you), 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:pg503:12:228 # text = Before drinking the magician made her a speech in praise of her beauty, but the Princess cut him short, saying: “Let us drink first, and you shall say what you will afterward.” 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 obj _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 37 afterward afterward ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | gerund | | the magician | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Patient | | 2 | **make** | past | | a speech | Princess | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary speech=Product | | 3 | **cut** | past | the Princess | magician | | | | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | shall | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **praise** | | | Princess's beauty | | | | | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/227/) - next →: [sentence 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/229/) - ↑ back to [Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/12/)