--- title: After the mother of the Wind had given the Princess a chicken to eat… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After the mother of the Wind had given the Princess a chicken to eat, and had warned her to take care of the bones, she advised her to go by the Milky Way, which at night lies across the sky, and to wander on till she reached her goal. Who acts: mother, wind. 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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 (mother, wind), 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:pg540:12:154 # text = After the mother of the Wind had given the Princess a chicken to eat, and had warned her to take care of the bones, she advised her to go by the Milky Way, which at night lies across the sky, and to wander on till she reached her goal. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 warned warn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 22 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Milky milky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Way Way PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 40 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 41 across across ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 wander wander VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 48 on on SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 till till SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 advcl _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past · perfect | | a chicken | the Princess | | after the mother | of the Wind | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient chicken=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | a chicken *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | | | mother | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | | care | | | | of the bones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of bone=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | mother | wind | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wind *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **lie** | present | wind *not said here* | the Milky Way | | the sky | night | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | | 8 | **wander** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **reach** | past | mother | mother's goal | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent goal=Theme | 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 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/153/) - next →: [sentence 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/155/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/)