--- title: When the cock crowed the third time the fiddles stopped, and a delic… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the cock crowed the third time the fiddles stopped, and a delicious supper was served by negro boys, consisting of sugared orange flowers, crystallised rose leaves, powdered violets, cracknels, wafers, and other dishes, which are, as everyone knows, the favourite food of princesses. 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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 (cock, fiddles, negro boys, consisting), 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:pg540:2:93 # text = When the cock crowed the third time the fiddles stopped, and a delicious supper was served by negro boys, consisting of sugared orange flowers, crystallised rose leaves, powdered violets, cracknels, wafers, and other dishes, which are, as everyone knows, the favourite food of princesses. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 crowed crow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fiddles fiddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 negro negro ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 consisting consist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 sugared sugar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 25 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 crystallised crystallis VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 29 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 powdered powder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 violets violet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 cracknels cracknel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 wafers wafer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 obj _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 48 nsubj _ _ 48 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crow** | past | the cock | other dishes and the favourite food of princesses | | | time | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stop** | past | the fiddles | the third time *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality time=Eventuality | | 3 | **serve** | past · passive | negro boys | a delicious supper | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | | 4 | **consist** | gerund | | | | | | of sugared orange flowers | tree rules | | 5 | **sugar** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **crystallis** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **rise** | past | consisting | leaves and powdered violets and cracknels and wafers | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme | | 8 | **powder** | participle | | | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | everyone | | | | | know *property* | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/94/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Dancing Princesses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/)