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title: Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad st… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad standing there ready cooked she was about to carry it up, but on the way, according to her old habit, she tasted it and ate a couple of leaves. Who acts: servant, salad, witch. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 87

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Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad standing there ready cooked she was about to carry it up, but on the way, according to her old habit, she tasted it and ate a couple of leaves.

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**Who acts:** servant, salad, witch · **What happens:** come, see, stand, cook, be, carry up · **To what, where:** kitchen, salad, way, couple

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (servant, salad, witch), 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:pg640:10:87
# text = Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad standing there ready cooked she was about to carry it up, but on the way, according to her old habit, she tasted it and ate a couple of leaves.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	salad	salad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	case	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the servant |  |  | the kitchen | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | servant | the salad |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salad=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | the salad *not said here* |  |  | there |  | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cook** | participle | the salad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | servant |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry up** | to-infinitive | servant *not said here* | salad |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **taste** | past | witch | salad |  | the way |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on way=Location |
| 9 | **eat** | past | witch *not said here* | a couple of leaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Patient |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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