--- title: The Queen and her ladies set to work to prepare presents for the fai… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Queen and her ladies set to work to prepare presents for the fairies who were invited: for each one a blue velvet cloak, a petticoat of apricot satin, a pair of high-heeled shoes, some sharp needles, and a pair of golden scissors. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/19/) [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 Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/) / 19 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 19 The Queen and her ladies set to work to prepare presents for the fairies who were invited: for each one a blue velvet cloak, a petticoat of apricot satin, a pair of high-heeled shoes, some sharp needles, and a pair of golden scissors. **Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** set, work, prepare, invite, heel · **To what, where:** presents, fairies This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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:pg540:3:19 # text = The Queen and her ladies set to work to prepare presents for the fairies who were invited: for each one a blue velvet cloak, a petticoat of apricot satin, a pair of high-heeled shoes, some sharp needles, and a pair of golden scissors. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 prepare prepare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 velvet velvet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 petticoat petticoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 apricot apricot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 satin satin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 heeled heel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 42 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | the Queen and Queen's ladies | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the Queen and Queen's ladies *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | the Queen and Queen's ladies *not said here* | presents | | | | for the fairies | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent present=Product for fairy=Beneficiary | | 4 | **invite** | past · passive | | the fairies | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **heel** | participle | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/20/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/)