--- title: Then he sent for a fairy who lived near his kingdom, and after recei… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he sent for a fairy who lived near his kingdom, and after receiving her with more politeness than he generally showed, and entertaining her at a sumptuous feast, he took her up to see the Queen. Who acts: baby, fairy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/29/) [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/) / 29 # The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 29 Then he sent for a fairy who lived near his kingdom, and after receiving her with more politeness than he generally showed, and entertaining her at a sumptuous feast, he took her up to see the Queen. **Who acts:** baby, fairy · **What happens:** send, live, receive, show, entertain, take up · **To what, where:** kingdom, Queen, sumptuous feast 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 (baby, fairy), 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:pg540:22:29 # text = Then he sent for a fairy who lived near his kingdom, and after receiving her with more politeness than he generally showed, and entertaining her at a sumptuous feast, he took her up to see the Queen. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 receiving receive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 politeness politeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 than than SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 generally generally ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 entertaining entertain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 sumptuous sumptuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | baby | | | | then | for a fairy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **live** | past | a fairy | | | baby's kingdom | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near kingdom=Location | | 3 | **receive** | gerund | baby *not said here* | Queen | | | | with more politeness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | baby | | | | | generally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **entertain** | gerund | baby *not said here* | Queen | | a sumptuous feast | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 6 | **take up** | past | baby | | Queen | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | baby *not said here* | the Queen | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/30/) - ↑ back to [The Little Good Mouse](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/22/)