--- title: And when she saw that the potion had worked, and that he was sound a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when she saw that the potion had worked, and that he was sound asleep, the Princess took the magic ring from his finger, and, going into the courtyard, she threw it from the palm of one hand into the other. Who acts: feast, potion, husband, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/138/) [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 Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/) / 138 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 138 And when she saw that the potion had worked, and that he was sound asleep, the Princess took the magic ring from his finger, and, going into the courtyard, she threw it from the palm of one hand into the other. **Who acts:** feast, potion, husband, Princess · **What happens:** see, work, be, take, go, throw · **To what, where:** magic ring, finger, courtyard, potion, palm · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, potion, husband, Princess), 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:pg640:33:138 # text = And when she saw that the potion had worked, and that he was sound asleep, the Princess took the magic ring from his finger, and, going into the courtyard, she threw it from the palm of one hand into the other. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 potion potion NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 sound sound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 into into ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | feast | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **work** | past · perfect | the potion | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | husband | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | past | the Princess | the magic ring | | husband's finger | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **go** | gerund | feast *not said here* | | | the courtyard | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **throw** | past | feast | potion | | the palm of one hand | | into the other | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from palm=Initial\_Location into other=Destination | 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 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/139/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)