--- title: Not knowing what to do, she had hastily swept away the pieces of cry… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Not knowing what to do, she had hastily swept away the pieces of crystal, and then remembered that in the King’s room she had seen a flask of exactly the same shape, also filled with sparkling water. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldiloc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/188/) [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 Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/) / 188 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 188 Not knowing what to do, she had hastily swept away the pieces of crystal, and then remembered that in the King’s room she had seen a flask of exactly the same shape, also filled with sparkling water. **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** not know, do, sweep away, remember, see, fill · **To what, where:** pieces, flask, room, same shape · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg503:28:188 # text = Not knowing what to do, she had hastily swept away the pieces of crystal, and then remembered that in the King’s room she had seen a flask of exactly the same shape, also filled with sparkling water. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 swept sweep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 crystal crystal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 flask flask NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 sparkling sparkling ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **sweep away** | past · perfect | princess | the pieces of crystal | | | | away, hastily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Trajectory | | 4 | **remember** | past | princess *not said here* | | | | then | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past · perfect | princess | a flask of the same shape | | the King's room | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus | | 6 | **fill** | participle | | the same shape *not said here* | | | | with sparkling water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | 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 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/187/) - next →: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/189/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)