--- title: They had caused the Princess’s portrait to be painted and sent to al… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They had caused the Princess’s portrait to be painted and sent to all the neighbouring Courts, for in four days she would have completed her twentieth year, and it was time to decide whom she should marry. Who acts: Princess, portrait. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/38/) [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/) / 38 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 38 They had caused the Princess’s portrait to be painted and sent to all the neighbouring Courts, for in four days she would have completed her twentieth year, and it was time to decide whom she should marry. **Who acts:** Princess, portrait · **What happens:** cause, paint, send, complete, be, decide · **To what, where:** King, neighbouring Courts, time · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Princess, portrait), 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:pg540:3:38 # text = They had caused the Princess’s portrait to be painted and sent to all the neighbouring Courts, for in four days she would have completed her twentieth year, and it was time to decide whom she should marry. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 neighbouring neighbouring NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux _ _ 26 completed complete VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 twentieth twentieth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 obj _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | past · perfect · passive | | King | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme portrait=Eventuality | | 2 | **paint** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V» | | 3 | **send** | participle | | | | all neighbouring Courts | day | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to court=Destination | | 4 | **complete** | would · perfect | Princess | | | | year | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | portrait | time | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **decide** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **marry** | should | Princess | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | | 8 | **portray** | | the Princess | | | | | | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/39/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/)