--- title: She then gave two glass bottles into the Princess’s charge, desiring… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She then gave two glass bottles into the Princess’s charge, desiring her to take the greatest care of them, and having enforced her orders with the most awful threats in case of disobedience, she vanished, leaving the little girl at liberty to explore the palace and grounds and a good deal relieved --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/56/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/) / 56 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 56 She then gave two glass bottles into the Princess’s charge, desiring her to take the greatest care of them, and having enforced her orders with the most awful threats in case of disobedience, she vanished, leaving the little girl at liberty to explore the palace and grounds and a good deal relieved at having only two apparently easy tasks set her. **Who acts:** child, two easy tasks, Princess, bottles · **What happens:** give, desire, take, enforce, vanish, leave · **To what, where:** two glass bottles, charge, child, greatest care, orders, little girl This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (child, two easy tasks, Princess, bottles), 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:pg640:23:56 # text = She then gave two glass bottles into the Princess’s charge, desiring her to take the greatest care of them, and having enforced her orders with the most awful threats in case of disobedience, she vanished, leaving the little girl at liberty to explore the palace and grounds and a good deal relieved at having only two apparently easy tasks set her. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bottles bottle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 desiring desire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 aux _ _ 25 enforced enforce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 31 advmod _ _ 31 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 threats threat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 disobedience disobedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 liberty liberty NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 explore explore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 grounds grounds NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 50 conj _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 57 relieved relieved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 58 at at SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 59 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 advcl _ _ 60 only only ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 61 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 64 nummod _ _ 62 apparently apparently ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 63 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 tasks task NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 nsubj _ _ 65 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 ccomp _ _ 66 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | child | two glass bottles | | the Princess's charge | then | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | | 2 | **desire** | gerund | child *not said here* | child | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the greatest care of bottles | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 4 | **enforce** | gerund · perfect | child *not said here* | child's orders | | | | with the awful threats in case of disobedience | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 5 | **vanish** | past | child | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | gerund | child *not said here* | the little girl | | liberty | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme at liberty=Location | | 7 | **explore** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the palace and grounds and a good deal | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent palace=Location | | 8 | **have** | gerund | child *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **set** | past | two easy tasks | child | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result | | 10 | **charge** | | the Princess | | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **care** | | bottles *= bottle* | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 12 | **order** | | child | | | | | | nom order «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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/57/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)