--- title: When they had put her into bed (for the old sorceress pretended that… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When they had put her into bed (for the old sorceress pretended that her fever was so violent she could not help herself in the least) one of the women went out, and returned soon again with a china dish in her hand, full of a certain liquor, which she presented to the magician, while the other help --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/66/) [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/pg503/51/) / 66 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 66 When they had put her into bed (for the old sorceress pretended that her fever was so violent she could not help herself in the least) one of the women went out, and returned soon again with a china dish in her hand, full of a certain liquor, which she presented to the magician, while the other helped her to sit up. **Who acts:** women, fever, cloth, certain liquor, other · **What happens:** put, pretend, be, not help, go out, return · **To what, where:** cloth, bed, magician This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, fever, cloth, certain liquor), 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:pg503:51:66 # text = When they had put her into bed (for the old sorceress pretended that her fever was so violent she could not help herself in the least) one of the women went out, and returned soon again with a china dish in her hand, full of a certain liquor, which she presented to the magician, while the other helped her to sit up. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sorceress sorceress NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 13 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 24 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 38 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 china china NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 liquor liquor NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 nsubj _ _ 55 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 acl:relcl _ _ 57 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 61 while while SCONJ IN _ 64 mark _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 nsubj _ _ 64 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 65 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 obj _ _ 66 to to PART TO _ 67 mark _ _ 67 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 xcomp _ _ 68 up up ADP RP _ 67 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past · perfect | women *= woman* | | cloth | bed | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | | 2 | **pretend** | past | | | | | | for the old sorceress | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | cloth's fever | | | | | violent *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **help** | could | cloth | cloth | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary | | 5 | **go out** | past | the women | | | | | in one the least | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **return** | past | | | | | again | with a china dish in cloth's hand; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **present** | past | a certain liquor | | the magician | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to magician=Recipient | | 8 | **help** | past | the other | cloth | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 9 | **sit up** | to-infinitive | cloth *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/67/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/)