--- title: At this time the brother in the serpent-pit dreamed that his right s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At this time the brother in the serpent-pit dreamed that his right sister had come swimming to the king’s palace in the shape of a duck, and that she could not regain her own form until her beak was cut off. Who acts: brother, right sister, sister. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/18/) [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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/) / 18 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 18 At this time the brother in the serpent-pit dreamed that his right sister had come swimming to the king’s palace in the shape of a duck, and that she could not regain her own form until her beak was cut off. **Who acts:** brother, right sister, sister · **What happens:** dream, come, swim, not regain, cut off, form · **To what, where:** palace, own form, beak · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, right sister, sister), 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:pg5615:32:18 # text = At this time the brother in the serpent-pit dreamed that his right sister had come swimming to the king’s palace in the shape of a duck, and that she could not regain her own form until her beak was cut off. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 18 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’s 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 regain regain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 until until SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 45 off off ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** | past | the brother in the serpent pit | | | | time | | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | past · perfect | brother's right sister | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **swim** | gerund | brother's right sister *not said here* | | | the king's palace in the shape of a duck | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | | 4 | **not** **regain** | could | sister | sister's own form | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | | 5 | **cut off** | past · passive | | sister's beak | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 6 | **form** | | sister | | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/19/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/)