--- title: Before the Princess left the mother of the Sun gave her a roast chic… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Before the Princess left the mother of the Sun gave her a roast chicken to eat, and advised her to take great care of the bones, which she did, wrapping them up in a bundle. Who acts: Sun, chicken, Princess, bones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, chicken, Princess, bones), 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:pg540:12:145 # text = Before the Princess left the mother of the Sun gave her a roast chicken to eat, and advised her to take great care of the bones, which she did, wrapping them up in a bundle. 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 roast roast NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 wrapping wrap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | | the mother | | | before the Princess | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mother=Theme before princess=Location | | 2 | **give** | past | the Sun | a roast chicken | mother | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chicken=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | a roast chicken *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | | chicken | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | chicken *not said here* | great care of the bones | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 6 | **do** | past | Princess | the bones | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | | 7 | **wrap up** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | bones *= bone* | | a bundle | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bundle=Destination | | 8 | **care** | | the bones | | | | | | 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 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/146/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/)