---
title: “Such costly soup is not to be had in my father’s palace,” said the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Such costly soup is not to be had in my father’s palace,” said the Prince; “but everything depends on how it tastes,” and then he went into the third room. Who acts: Prince, everything, soup. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with its dependency tree and t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Master-maid, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/) / 16

# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“Such costly soup is not to be had in my father’s palace,” said the Prince; “but everything depends on how it tastes,” and then he went into the third room.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Prince, everything, soup · **What happens:** not be, say, depend, taste, go · **To what, where:** palace, third room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, everything, soup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg503:17:16
# text = “Such costly soup is not to be had in my father’s palace,” said the Prince; “but everything depends on how it tastes,” and then he went into the third room.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  | my father's palace |  | have *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **depend** *in a quote* | present | everything |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **taste** *in a quote* | present | soup |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | past | Prince |  |  | the third room | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/15/)
- next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/17/)
- ↑ back to [The Master-maid, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/17/)