--- title: Meanwhile the Princess Mayblossom, who was by this time terribly sle… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile the Princess Mayblossom, who was by this time terribly sleepy, had found a grassy bank in the shade, and throwing herself down had already fallen into a profound slumber, when Fanfaronade, who happened to be hungry and not sleepy, came and woke her up, saying, very crossly: Who acts: Princ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/70/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/) / 70 # The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 70 Meanwhile the Princess Mayblossom, who was by this time terribly sleepy, had found a grassy bank in the shade, and throwing herself down had already fallen into a profound slumber, when Fanfaronade, who happened to be hungry and not sleepy, came and woke her up, saying, very crossly: **Who acts:** Princess Mayblossom, throwing, Fanfaronade · **What happens:** be, find, throw down, fall, happen, not be · **To what, where:** grassy bank, shade, Princess, profound slumber · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 Mayblossom, throwing, Fanfaronade), 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:pg540:4:70 # text = Meanwhile the Princess Mayblossom, who was by this time terribly sleepy, had found a grassy bank in the shade, and throwing herself down had already fallen into a profound slumber, when Fanfaronade, who happened to be hungry and not sleepy, came and woke her up, saying, very crossly: 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Mayblossom Mayblossom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 11 terribly terribly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 throwing throw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 csubj _ _ 25 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 down down ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 already already ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 profound profound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 slumber slumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 36 Fanfaronade Fanfaronade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 42 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 50 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 up up ADP RP _ 49 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 very very ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 crossly crossly ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Princess Mayblossom | | | | by this time | | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | past · perfect | | a grassy bank | | the shade | | meanwhile *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Topic | | 3 | **throw down** | gerund | | Princess | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | throwing | | | | | into a profound slumber *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into slumber=Result | | 5 | **happen** | past | Fanfaronade | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | Fanfaronade *not said here* | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **be** | | Fanfaronade *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **come** | past | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **wake up** | past | | Princess | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | crossly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/71/) - ↑ back to [The Princess Mayblossom, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/)