--- title: Away went Frisk, and as there was no better dinner cooking in all th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Away went Frisk, and as there was no better dinner cooking in all the town than the King’s, he adroitly took the cover off the pot and brought all it contained to the Princess, who said: Who acts: Frisk, pot, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/232/) [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/) / 232 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 232 Away went Frisk, and as there was no better dinner cooking in all the town than the King’s, he adroitly took the cover off the pot and brought all it contained to the Princess, who said: **Who acts:** Frisk, pot, Princess · **What happens:** go, be, take, bring, contain, say · **To what, where:** Frisk, better dinner cooking, town, cover, pot · **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 (Frisk, pot, Princess), 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:pg540:11:232 # text = Away went Frisk, and as there was no better dinner cooking in all the town than the King’s, he adroitly took the cover off the pot and brought all it contained to the Princess, who said: 1 Away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Frisk frisk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 no no ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 11 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’s 's PART POS _ 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 adroitly adroitly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cover cover NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 off off ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 all all ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 contained contain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | | Frisk | | | | away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frisk=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | | better dinner cooking | | all town | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | past | Frisk | the cover | | the pot | | adroitly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent cover=Theme off pot=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **bring** | past | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **contain** | past | pot | | | | | to the Princess; all *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/231/) - next →: [sentence 233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/233/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)