--- title: But, as I suppose,” pursued she, “that you have eaten nothing to-day… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But, as I suppose,” pursued she, “that you have eaten nothing to-day, a slight repast shall be served up for you, while preparations are making for our wedding feast at night, and then I will show you the apartments of my palace, and you shall judge if this hall is not the meanest part of it.” Who a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/65/) [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 Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/) / 65 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 65 But, as I suppose,” pursued she, “that you have eaten nothing to-day, a slight repast shall be served up for you, while preparations are making for our wedding feast at night, and then I will show you the apartments of my palace, and you shall judge if this hall is not the meanest part of it.” **Who acts:** I, you, preparations, hall · **What happens:** suppose, pursue, eat, serve up, make, show · **To what, where:** Fairy, nothing, slight repast, apartments, you, meanest part · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, 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 (I, you, preparations, hall), 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:pg503:50:65 # text = But, as I suppose,” pursued she, “that you have eaten nothing to-day, a slight repast shall be served up for you, while preparations are making for our wedding feast at night, and then I will show you the apartments of my palace, and you shall judge if this hall is not the meanest part of it.” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 pursued pursue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 slight slight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 repast repast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 preparations preparation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 iobj _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 apartments apartment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 55 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 judge judge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 parataxis _ _ 58 if if SCONJ IN _ 65 mark _ _ 59 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 60 det _ _ 60 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nsubj _ _ 61 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 65 cop _ _ 62 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 65 advmod _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 meanest mean ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 65 amod _ _ 65 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 ccomp _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 67 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suppose** | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pursue** *in a quote* | past | | Fairy | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | present · perfect | you | nothing | | | to day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 4 | **serve up** | shall · passive | | a slight repast | | | | for you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for you=Recipient | | 5 | **make** | present · progressive | preparations | | | | night | for our wedding feast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for feast=Asset | | 6 | **show** | future | I | the apartments of my palace | you | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient apartment=Topic | | 7 | **judge** | shall | you | | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this hall | the meanest part | | | | of repast | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/66/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/)