--- title: As she spoke a band of lovely fairies came up and offered her amber… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As she spoke a band of lovely fairies came up and offered her amber baskets full of fruit, but when she held out her hands to them they glided away, and she could feel nothing when she tried to touch them. Who acts: Princess, hands. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/4/) [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 Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/) / 4 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 4 As she spoke a band of lovely fairies came up and offered her amber baskets full of fruit, but when she held out her hands to them they glided away, and she could feel nothing when she tried to touch them. **Who acts:** Princess, hands · **What happens:** speak, come up, offer, hold out, glide away, feel · **To what, where:** band, amber baskets, hands, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (Princess, hands), 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:pg503:31:4 # text = As she spoke a band of lovely fairies came up and offered her amber baskets full of fruit, but when she held out her hands to them they glided away, and she could feel nothing when she tried to touch them. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 amber amber NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 baskets basket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 glided glide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 36 obj _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Princess | a band of lovely fairies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come up** | past | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **offer** | past | | Princess's amber baskets | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | | 4 | **hold out** | past | Princess | Princess's hands | hands *= hand* | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **glide away** | past | hands *= hand* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **feel** | could | Princess | nothing | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 7 | **try** | past | Princess | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **touch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | hands *= hand* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/5/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)