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title: Supper was soon spread for her under a shady tree, and she invited t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Supper was soon spread for her under a shady tree, and she invited the Prince to share the cream and brown bread which the old woman provided. Who acts: Princess, Prince, cream. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 78

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Supper was soon spread for her under a shady tree, and she invited the Prince to share the cream and brown bread which the old woman provided.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Prince, cream · **What happens:** spread, invite, share, provide · **To what, where:** Supper, shady tree, Prince, cream

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Prince, cream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg540:35:78
# text = Supper was soon spread for her under a shady tree, and she invited the Prince to share the cream and brown bread which the old woman provided.
1	Supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · passive |  | Supper |  | a shady tree |  | for Princess; soon *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under tree=Destination |
| 2 | **invite** | past | Princess | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* | the cream and brown bread |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **provide** | past | the cream and brown bread |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |

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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.

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**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.

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