--- title: Now, luckily, the Princess’s bed was entirely stuffed with phoenix f… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now, luckily, the Princess’s bed was entirely stuffed with phoenix feathers, which are very rare, and have the property of always floating upon water, so Rosette went on swimming about as if she had been in a boat. Who acts: phoenix feathers, property, Rosette. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/135/) [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/) / 135 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 135 Now, luckily, the Princess’s bed was entirely stuffed with phoenix feathers, which are very rare, and have the property of always floating upon water, so Rosette went on swimming about as if she had been in a boat. **Who acts:** phoenix feathers, property, Rosette · **What happens:** stuff, be, have, float, go, swim · **To what, where:** bed, property, water 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 (phoenix feathers, property, Rosette), 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:pg540:11:135 # text = Now, luckily, the Princess’s bed was entirely stuffed with phoenix feathers, which are very rare, and have the property of always floating upon water, so Rosette went on swimming about as if she had been in a boat. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 luckily luckily ADV RB _ 1 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 phoenix phoenix NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 27 advmod _ _ 27 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 Rosette Rosette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 34 on on SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 44 case _ _ 38 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 cop _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stuff** | past · passive | | the Princess's bed | | | now | with phoenix feathers; entirely *property* | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with feather=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | phoenix feathers | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | infinitive | | the property | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient | | 4 | **float** | gerund | the property *not said here* | | | water | | always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Trajectory | | 5 | **go** | past | Rosette | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **swim** | gerund | Rosette *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past · perfect | Rosette | | | | | as a boat | 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 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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/136/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)