--- title: But when it was morning, and the King and Queen were drinking tea, t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But when it was morning, and the King and Queen were drinking tea, the Princess said that the night before she had had such a strange dream about a dog and a Soldier: she had ridden on the dog’s back, and the Soldier had kissed her. Who acts: dog, King, Princess, Queen. A sentence of «The Yellow Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/103/) [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 Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/) / 103 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 103 But when it was morning, and the King and Queen were drinking tea, the Princess said that the night before she had had such a strange dream about a dog and a Soldier: she had ridden on the dog’s back, and the Soldier had kissed her. **Who acts:** dog, King, Princess, Queen · **What happens:** be, drink, say, have, ride, kiss · **To what, where:** morning, tea, strange dream, Soldier · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, King, Princess, Queen), 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:pg640:46:103 # text = But when it was morning, and the King and Queen were drinking tea, the Princess said that the night before she had had such a strange dream about a dog and a Soldier: she had ridden on the dog’s back, and the Soldier had kissed her. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 14 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 that that ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 26 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 29 det:predet _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 about about ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 ridden ride VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 44 back back ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Soldier Soldier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 kissed kiss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 conj _ _ 51 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | dog | morning | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drink** | past · progressive | the King and Queen | tea | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess | | | | night | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | past · perfect | Queen | such strange dream | | | | about a dog and a Soldier | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | | 5 | **ride** | past · perfect | Queen | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **kiss** | past · perfect · passive | | the Soldier | | | | | tree rules | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/104/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/)