--- title: After giving this order he went to his own room, but he had scarcely… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After giving this order he went to his own room, but he had scarcely got into it when there was a clap of thunder which made the ground shake, and the Fairy Truth appeared suddenly before him. Who acts: brother, clap, ground, Fairy Truth. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Da --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/84/) [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/) / [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/) / 84 # The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 84 After giving this order he went to his own room, but he had scarcely got into it when there was a clap of thunder which made the ground shake, and the Fairy Truth appeared suddenly before him. **Who acts:** brother, clap, ground, Fairy Truth · **What happens:** give, go, get, be, make, shake · **To what, where:** order, own room, room, ground, thunder This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, clap, ground, Fairy Truth), 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:pg503:39:84 # text = After giving this order he went to his own room, but he had scarcely got into it when there was a clap of thunder which made the ground shake, and the Fairy Truth appeared suddenly before him. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 clap clap NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Truth Truth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 37 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 before before ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | brother *not said here* | this order | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | brother | | | brother's own room | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **get** | past · perfect | brother | | | room | | scarcely *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | | 4 | **be** | past | a clap of thunder | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | a clap of thunder | the ground | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **shake** | infinitive | the ground *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **appear** | past | the Fairy Truth | | | | before brother | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | | 8 | **clap** | | | thunder | | | | | nom clap «event 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/85/) - ↑ back to [Prince Darling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/)