--- title: Then the guards began to search the poultry-yard, and could find nob… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the guards began to search the poultry-yard, and could find nobody there but Delicia, who, with her splendid dress and her crown of diamonds, looked such a lovely Princess that they hardly dared to speak to her. Who acts: guards, Delicia. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/157/) [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/) / [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/) / 157 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 157 Then the guards began to search the poultry-yard, and could find nobody there but Delicia, who, with her splendid dress and her crown of diamonds, looked such a lovely Princess that they hardly dared to speak to her. **Who acts:** guards, Delicia · **What happens:** begin, search, find, look, dare, speak · **To what, where:** poultry yard, nobody, lovely Princess, Delicia, diamonds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Delicia), 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:pg540:22:157 # text = Then the guards began to search the poultry-yard, and could find nobody there but Delicia, who, with her splendid dress and her crown of diamonds, looked such a lovely Princess that they hardly dared to speak to her. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 search search VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 poultry poultry NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 14 obj _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Delicia Delicia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 36 det:predet _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the guards | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **search** | to-infinitive | the guards *not said here* | the poultry yard | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yard=Location | | 3 | **find** | could | the guards *not said here* | nobody | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Topic | | 4 | **look** | past | the guards *not said here* | such lovely Princess | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Attribute | | 5 | **dare** | past | guards *= guard* | | | | | hardly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | guards *= guard* *not said here* | | Delicia | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | | 7 | **crown** | | Delicia | diamonds | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/156/) - next →: [sentence 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/158/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)