---
title: But when the priest had laid his hands on the princes and read the b… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the priest had laid his hands on the princes and read the blessing, they went out of the church again, and Cinderlad went out too, but he took with him a flask of wine and some consecrated bread. Who acts: priest, foals, Cinderlad. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seve
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/99/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Seven Foals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/) / 99

# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 99

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But when the priest had laid his hands on the princes and read the blessing, they went out of the church again, and Cinderlad went out too, but he took with him a flask of wine and some consecrated bread.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** priest, foals, Cinderlad · **What happens:** lay, read, go out, take, consecrate · **To what, where:** hands, blessing, church, flask

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, foals, Cinderlad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:49:99
# text = But when the priest had laid his hands on the princes and read the blessing, they went out of the church again, and Cinderlad went out too, but he took with him a flask of wine and some consecrated bread.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
42	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past · perfect | the priest | priest's hands |  |  |  | on the princes | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on prince=Destination |
| 2 | **read** | present |  | the blessing |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic |
| 3 | **go out** | past | foals *= foal* | the church |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** | past | Cinderlad |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | past | Cinderlad | a flask of wine and some consecrated bread |  |  |  | with priest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme |
| 6 | **consecrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/98/)
- next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/100/)
- ↑ back to [The Seven Foals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/49/)