--- title: So that evening, when the Princess came once more with her sleeping-… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So that evening, when the Princess came once more with her sleeping-drink, he pretended to drink, but threw it away behind him, for he suspected that it was a sleeping-drink. Who acts: Princess, folk, drink. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, folk, drink), 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:pg503:4:132 # text = So that evening, when the Princess came once more with her sleeping-drink, he pretended to drink, but threw it away behind him, for he suspected that it was a sleeping-drink. 1 So so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 behind behind ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 suspected suspect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pretend** | past | folk | | | | evening | | tree rules | | 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | folk *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **throw away** | past | | drink | | | | behind folk; away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination | | 5 | **suspect** | past | folk | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | drink | a sleeping drink | | | | | 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 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/133/) - ↑ back to [East of the Sun and West of the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/4/)