--- title: The Princess sent to each of the fairies a new spinning-wheel with a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Princess sent to each of the fairies a new spinning-wheel with a distaff of cedar wood, and the Queen said she must look through her treasures and find something very charming to send them also. Who acts: Princess, Queen, something. 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/pg540/3/68/) [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/) / 68 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 68 The Princess sent to each of the fairies a new spinning-wheel with a distaff of cedar wood, and the Queen said she must look through her treasures and find something very charming to send them also. **Who acts:** Princess, Queen, something · **What happens:** send, say, look, find, treasure · **To what, where:** each, something, treasures · **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, Queen, something), 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:pg540:3:68 # text = The Princess sent to each of the fairies a new spinning-wheel with a distaff of cedar wood, and the Queen said she must look through her treasures and find something very charming to send them also. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 distaff distaff NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 cedar cedar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 28 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 obj _ _ 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 charming charming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 also also ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | the Princess | | | each | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to each=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** | must | Princess | | | | | through Princess's treasures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through treasure=Theme | | 4 | **find** | present | Princess *not said here* | something | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 5 | **send** | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | treasures *= treasure* | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **treasure** | | Princess | | | | | | nom treasure «possession 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/69/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/)