--- title: After having thus entertained her friends, she distributed her dolls… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After having thus entertained her friends, she distributed her dolls among them, and left her brother’s kingdom to the care of the wisest old men of the city, telling them to take charge of everything, not to spend any money, but save it all up until the King should return, and above all, not to for --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/110/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/) / 110 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 110 After having thus entertained her friends, she distributed her dolls among them, and left her brother’s kingdom to the care of the wisest old men of the city, telling them to take charge of everything, not to spend any money, but save it all up until the King should return, and above all, not to forget to feed her peacock. **Who acts:** Rosette, King, wisest old men · **What happens:** have, entertain, distribute, leave, tell, take · **To what, where:** friends, dolls, kingdom, care, charge, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette, King, wisest old men), 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:pg540:11:110 # text = After having thus entertained her friends, she distributed her dolls among them, and left her brother’s kingdom to the care of the wisest old men of the city, telling them to take charge of everything, not to spend any money, but save it all up until the King should return, and above all, not to forget to feed her peacock. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 3 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 entertained entertain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 distributed distribute VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 dolls doll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 among among ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 wisest wise ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 44 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 49 det _ _ 51 up up ADP RP _ 48 compound:prt _ _ 52 until until SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 55 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 59 above above ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 64 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 62 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 64 advmod _ _ 63 to to PART TO _ 64 mark _ _ 64 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 65 to to PART TO _ 66 mark _ _ 66 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 64 xcomp _ _ 67 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | Rosette *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **entertain** | past | Rosette *not said here* | Rosette's friends | | | | thus *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer | | 3 | **distribute** | past | Rosette | Rosette's dolls | | | | among dolls *= doll* | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent doll=Theme among they=Recipient | | 4 | **leave** | past | Rosette *not said here* | Rosette's brother's kingdom | the care of the wisest old men of the city | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to care=Recipient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Rosette *not said here* | | friends *= friend* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rosette *not said here* | charge | | | | of everything | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent charge=Theme of everything=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **not** **spend** | to-infinitive | Rosette *not said here* | any money | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 8 | **save up** | infinitive | Rosette *not said here* | money | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 9 | **return** | should | the King | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **not** **forget** | to-infinitive | Rosette *not said here* | | | all | | | tree rules | | 11 | **feed** | to-infinitive | Rosette *not said here* | Rosette's peacock | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Recipient | | 12 | **care** | | the wisest old men of the city | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/111/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)