--- title: One day she was seated in her room, playing on her favourite musical… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day she was seated in her room, playing on her favourite musical instrument, when she felt something gliding up her sash, and saw her enemy making his way to kiss her cheek. Who acts: Princess, enemy. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/53/) [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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/) / 53 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 53 One day she was seated in her room, playing on her favourite musical instrument, when she felt something gliding up her sash, and saw her enemy making his way to kiss her cheek. **Who acts:** Princess, enemy · **What happens:** seat, play, feel, glide up, see, make · **To what, where:** Princess, room, favourite musical instrument, something, sash, enemy This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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, enemy), 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:pg5615:1:53 # text = One day she was seated in her room, playing on her favourite musical instrument, when she felt something gliding up her sash, and saw her enemy making his way to kiss her cheek. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 21 gliding glide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 sash sash NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seat** | past · passive | | Princess | | Princess's room | day | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in room=Location | | 2 | **play** | gerund | | | | Princess's favourite musical instrument | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | past | Princess | something | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 4 | **glide up** | gerund | | Princess's sash | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sash=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | Princess *not said here* | Princess's enemy | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | gerund | Princess's enemy *not said here* | servant's way | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | | 7 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | Princess's enemy *not said here* | Princess's cheek | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Co-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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/54/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/)