--- title: “Ah! well, she has just stolen out for a little,” thought the giant,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Ah! well, she has just stolen out for a little,” thought the giant, and he took a spoon, and went off to the cauldron to have a taste; but there was nothing in it but shoe-soles, and rags, and such trumpery as that, and all was boiled up together, so that he could not tell whether it was porridge o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/13/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/) / 13 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 13 “Ah! well, she has just stolen out for a little,” thought the giant, and he took a spoon, and went off to the cauldron to have a taste; but there was nothing in it but shoe-soles, and rags, and such trumpery as that, and all was boiled up together, so that he could not tell whether it was porridge or milk pottage. **Who acts:** maid, giant, taste · **What happens:** steal out, think, take, go off, have, be · **To what, where:** giant, spoon, taste, all, porridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, giant, taste), 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:pg503:18:13 # text = “Ah! well, she has just stolen out for a little,” thought the giant, and he took a spoon, and went off to the cauldron to have a taste; but there was nothing in it but shoe-soles, and rags, and such trumpery as that, and all was boiled up together, so that he could not tell whether it was porridge or milk pottage. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 16 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cauldron cauldron NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 39 expl _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 40 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 39 nsubj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 soles sole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 rags rag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 trumpery trumpery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 54 as as ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 58 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 60 nsubj:pass _ _ 59 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux:pass _ _ 60 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 parataxis _ _ 61 up up ADP RP _ 60 compound:prt _ _ 62 together together ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 64 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 69 mark _ _ 65 that that SCONJ IN _ 64 fixed _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 67 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 69 aux _ _ 68 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 69 advmod _ _ 69 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 conj _ _ 70 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 73 mark _ _ 71 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 73 nsubj _ _ 72 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 73 cop _ _ 73 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 ccomp _ _ 74 or or CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 75 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 76 compound _ _ 76 pottage pottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal out** *in a quote* | present · perfect | maid | | | | | for a little | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | the giant | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot giant=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | giant | a spoon | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme | | 4 | **go off** | past | giant *not said here* | | | | | to the cauldron | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | giant *not said here* | a taste | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | as that; trumpery *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **boil up** | past · passive | | all | | | | together *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | giant | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | past | taste | porridge or milk pottage | | | | | tree rules | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/14/) - ↑ back to [The Master-maid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/)