--- title: And, to restore heart and legs to the child, she made her eat a good… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And, to restore heart and legs to the child, she made her eat a good piece of her cake, and drink a good draught of wine, after which she took her by the hand and led her back to the house. Who acts: Grandmother, Blanchette. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Litt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/33/81/) [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 True History of Little Golden Hood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/33/) / 81 # The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 81 And, to restore heart and legs to the child, she made her eat a good piece of her cake, and drink a good draught of wine, after which she took her by the hand and led her back to the house. **Who acts:** Grandmother, Blanchette · **What happens:** restore, make, eat, drink, take, lead back · **To what, where:** heart, child, Blanchette, good piece, good draught, Grandmother This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, Blanchette), 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:pg540:33:81 # text = And, to restore heart and legs to the child, she made her eat a good piece of her cake, and drink a good draught of wine, after which she took her by the hand and led her back to the house. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 restore restore VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 drink drink VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 draught draught NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 back back ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **restore** | to-infinitive | | heart and legs | the child | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to child=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | past | Grandmother | Blanchette | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | infinitive | Blanchette *not said here* | a good piece of Grandmother's cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | | a good draught of wine | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient | | 5 | **take** | past | Grandmother | | Blanchette | | | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 6 | **lead back** | past | Grandmother *not said here* | Grandmother | | the house | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Destination | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/33/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/33/82/) - ↑ back to [The True History of Little Golden Hood](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/33/)