--- title: Soon there came a day when the whole court was ordered to be present… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon there came a day when the whole court was ordered to be present at the christening of the royal babies, and when all was ready the queen softly opened the window a little, and let the goose wing fly out. Who acts: whole court, all, queen, goose wing. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by And --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/41/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/) / 41 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 41 Soon there came a day when the whole court was ordered to be present at the christening of the royal babies, and when all was ready the queen softly opened the window a little, and let the goose wing fly out. **Who acts:** whole court, all, queen, goose wing · **What happens:** come, order, be, open, let, fly out · **To what, where:** whole court, christening, window, goose wing, royal babies This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole court, all, queen, goose wing), 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:pg641:12:41 # text = Soon there came a day when the whole court was ordered to be present at the christening of the royal babies, and when all was ready the queen softly opened the window a little, and let the goose wing fly out. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 14 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 christening christening NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 softly softly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | | | there | day | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **order** | past · passive | | the whole court | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the whole court *not said here* | | | the christening of the royal babies | | present *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | all | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **open** | past | the queen | the window | | | | a little *obl:unmarked*; softly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | | 6 | **let** | infinitive | | the goose wing | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fly out** | infinitive | the goose wing *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **christen** | | | the royal babies | | | | | nom christening «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/42/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)